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White House Touts Cyber Component of Infrastructure Bill
- Friday, 12 November 2021
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President Joe Biden has talked up the cybersecurity investment in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. So reports Nextgov.
Read more...McAfee To Go Private in $14B Deal
- Friday, 12 November 2021
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McAfee agreed to go private in a buyout deal with investors worth more than $14 billion. So reports The Verge.
Read more...Robinhood Support Snafu Exposes Data of 7 million
- Friday, 12 November 2021
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Robinhood Markets, the online brokerage that ramped up its customer support after criticism last year, has suffered a data breach after a hacker tricked a customer support representative. So reports Bloomberg.
Read more...Missouri Retains Data Breach Service After Security Flaw Detected
- Friday, 05 November 2021
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Missouri has hired a company for data breach and credit monitoring services, two weeks after journalists found a security vulnerability on a state website. So reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Read more...12 Arrested for Alleged Role in International Ransomware Attacks
- Friday, 05 November 2021
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European law enforcement has arrested 12 people for allegedly participating in ransomware attacks affecting critical infrastructure worldwide. So reports GovInfoSecurity.
Read more...Microsoft Hopes to Cut Cybersecurity Labor Shortage in Half By 2025
- Friday, 05 November 2021
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Microsoft has announced that it will provide a free curriculum to community colleges nationwide as part of a plan to cut the U.S. cybersecurity workforce shortage in half by 2025. So reports CNBC.
Read more...Facebook to Shut Down Facial Recognition Program
- Thursday, 04 November 2021
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Facebook has announced that it plans to end its facial recognition system and delete facial recognition data on more than one billion people. So reports Ars Technica.
Read more...Quantum Cybersecurity firm QuintessenceLabs Raises $25 million
- Friday, 29 October 2021
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QuintessenceLabs, an Australia-based cybersecurity firm that uses quantum random number generators, has secured $25 million in a Series B round. So reports TechCrunch.
Read more...Homeland Security Warns of Lethal Threat from 'Killware'
- Friday, 29 October 2021
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Move over, ransomware, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said that the next major cybersecurity threat is “killware.” So reports CPO Magazine, citing a subscriber-only USA Today interview.
Read more...CoinMarketCap Says 3.1 Million Email Address Leak Wasn’t a Breach
- Friday, 29 October 2021
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While a list of 3.1 email addresses that correspond with accounts on CoinMarketCap has been circulating, the cryptocurrency website has announced that it found “no trace of any security breach of our servers.” So reports BankInfoSecurity.
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