Google Finally Pulls Chinese Apps Stealing Personal Data
After six million downloads, two spyware Baidu apps have been removed from the Play Store. What took Google so long? ... Read More
FireEye Acquires Respond Software to Advance Cybersecurity AI
FireEye Inc., a provider of managed security services augmented by machine learning algorithms, has acquired Respond Software, a provider of a platform that automates security incident investigations, for $186 million. Peter Bailey, executive vice president and COO for FireEye, said the acquisition of Respond Software adds eXtended Detection and Response ... Read More
Palo Alto Networks Surfaces AWS API Vulnerabilities
The Unit 42 research arm of Palo Alto Networks has published a report detailing how 22 application programming interfaces (APIs) across 16 different Amazon Web Services (AWS) platforms can be abused by cybercriminals to surface the identities of the members of the IT team that created them. Jen Miller-Osborn, deputy ... Read More
Congress Passes IoT Security Act, but is it Toothless?
The House and the Senate have both passed a bipartisan bill to shore up the security of “internet of things” devices ... Read More
Sumo Logic Finds Attack Surface Expanding
Michael Vizard | | Attack Surface, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, IT Security, security surveyAn annual report published today by Sumo Logic, a provider of security tools delivered as a cloud service, highlights the degree to which security has fundamentally shifted in the age of the cloud. Based on an analysis of data culled from more than 2,100 Sumo Logic customers, the report finds ... Read More
Japanese Orgs Hacked ‘by China’ in Long, Widespread Campaign
Chinese state-backed threat actors APT10 have been hacking Japanese businesses for at least a year ... Read More
Trump Fires DHS Cybersecurity Agency Over Election Remarks
Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has been fired by President Trump. His crime? Making a “highly inaccurate” statement about the 2020 presidential election. CISA called the election “the most secure in American history,” which Mister Trump disputes. The president continues to argue it was tainted ... Read More
Vertafore Leak: Private Data of 28M Texans
An insurance software vendor ’fessed up to losing control of a huge cache of personal data. Vertafore lost the details of 27,700,000 Texas drivers ... Read More
Disconnect Your TCL Smart TV From the Internet—NOW
Researchers are sounding the alarm about Android TVs from TCL. A pair of bugs make them serious targets for hackers, and the TVs have a Chinese backdoor ... Read More
Menlo Security Raises $100M for Security Service
Menlo Security today announced it has raised another $100 million in funding to fuel an effort to better secure cloud environments using the Menlo Security Isolation Platform and Adaptive Clientless Rendering (ACR) technology, which fetches and executes the functions of a web browser on its platform rather than on a ... Read More
