2020 saw a surge in cybersecurity startup funding
Investments in cybersecurity startups hit a record high of $7.8 billion last year, according to new data from Crunchbase. The increase was led by US investments in the sector, which rose by 22% in 2020 over 2019. This growth is 15% higher than the overall venture capital investments made over the s...
Irish privacy watchdog starts investigation into Facebook incident
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland will investigate the Facebook incident from earlier this month. In the the incident, data from more than half a billion users was posted online.
According to the privacy watchdog, one or more provisions of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 ...
FBI hacks into Exchange servers to protect them
The FBI has shared information about an operation in which it hacks into leaky Exchange servers. The intelligence service removes any web shells that attackers have placed to create a backdoor.
In the announcement of the operation, the FBI said that many owners of infected systems had already su...
Defender for Endpoint scans networks for vulnerable devices
Microsoft has added network scanning to Defender for Endpoint. The software allows companies to check whether unmanaged devices are connected to the network. Administrators are then advised of potential security risks associated with these devices.
With the new feature, Microsoft wants to capita...
Cracked Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop steal your data
Cracked versions of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop are stealing browser cookies and Monero cryptocurrency wallets from freeloaders who installed pirated software. The report about these activities comes from Bitdefender.
As many of our readers probably know, cracked versions of the softwar...
Microsoft closes multiple zero-days in Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has released its monthly series of security updates for its software. During this round of patches, more than one hundred vulnerabilities will be closed, five of which are labelled as zero-days.
Bleeping Computer has posted an overview of all the vulnerabilities on its website. Five of...
Four new critical vulnerabilities in Exchange
Once again, several critical Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities have been found. Two of them give attackers access to a server without having to log in. Patches for the vulnerabilities are available.
Microsoft has been notified of the new Exchange vulnerabilities by the National Security ...
New vulnerabilities potentially expose millions of IoT devices
Millions of IoT (Internet of Things) devices have security vulnerabilities that could allow cybercriminals to knock devices offline or control them remotely. The problem with this is that it opens the door to gain wider access to bigger networks.
Nine major vulnerabilities are affecting four TCP...
Aruba adds new security features to edge platform
HPE subsidiary Aruba has announced several new features for its Edge Services Platform. It mainly concerns a set of integrations with other Aruba software solutions.
In a press release, Aruba names three improvements for its Edge Services Platform. The first is integration of the ClearPass Polic...
WhatsApp vulnerability allows hackers to suspend your account
A newly-discovered flaw in the Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp can allow an attacker to suspend your account, using just your phone number. The proof-of-concept of this attack was developed by Luis Márquez Carpintero and Ernesto Canales Pereña.
It involves some pretty simple steps, where...
Names and info of 1.3 million Clubhouse users appear online
A database containing data on 1.3 million Clubhouse users has appeared on a hacker forum. However, according to Clubhouse, this was not a hack, as the data had always been publicly accessible with an API.
The shared data consists of the user ID, name, URL of the profile picture, user name, Twitt...
Palo Alto introduces Checkov 2.0, scans IaCs on dependency issues
Palo Alto Networks has announced version 2.0 of its Checkov software. The new version of the IaC scanner is now capable of detecting misconfigurations in systems with complex dependencies.
"This release is the most significant update to Checkov since it launched in 2019," said Matt Johnson, Brid...