The cybersecurity firm IronNet, founded and led by retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, has gone public without an IPO by merging with LGL Systems Acquisitions Corp., a "blank check" shell company formed to handle such mergers. Meanwhile, Checkpoint has announced plans to acquire the email security firm Avanan.
Users of OpenSea, a marketplace for blockchain-based digital assets such as crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens, are being targeted by scammers pretending to be the company's support staff on Discord. The attackers exploited a method OpenSea uses to service support tickets on Discord.
Although research firm Gartner forecasts that spending on cybersecurity will surpass $150 billion in 2021, "the proportion of investment going to companies raising investment for the first time is significantly down," says Saj Huq, director of cyber innovation at Plexal, a center for innovation in the U.K.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will monitor decentralized finance transactions, after contracting with the blockchain cybersecurity firm AnChain.AI. Legal experts suggest this and other recent moves preview increased regulation of the decentralized finance space.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has instructed depositories in the country to use distributed ledger technology to record and monitor the creation of securities as well as contracts of nonconvertible securities. The new monitoring system is expected to be implemented by April 1, 2022.
Sen. Pat Toomey of the Senate Banking Committee is requesting input from the cryptocurrency and blockchain community to inform future legislation on its security and privacy. Several experts praise efforts to regulate the space, but cite its complexities.
A vulnerability in Microsoft Azure's database service Cosmos DB has potentially put at risk thousands of Azure customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, according to the security firm Wiz. Microsoft has mitigated the flaw.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss timely cybersecurity issues, including cryptocurrency exchange hacks and the cyber implications of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul.
Accreditation organization CREST has concluded an investigation into whether NCC Group employees cheated on its penetration-testing exams, finding that the cybersecurity business's training materials violated its rules. It says NCC Group has agreed to overhaul its processes and demonstrate compliance.
To make the transformation to a DevSecOps approach, enterprises must slowly change the corporate culture by finding early adopters and starting small, says Sean D. Mack, CIO and CISO at Wiley, an education and research company.
This edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis initiatives unveiled by the Biden administration to enhance supply chain and critical infrastructure security and address the cybersecurity skills gap. Also featured: LockBit 2.0 ransomware rep 'tells all'; misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps.
After a string of high-profile hits, many of the largest and most notorious ransomware operations recently disappeared. But the pace of ransomware attacks hasn't diminished because of a steady influx of new operations, existing operations getting more sophisticated and old players rebranding.
As the lines blur between identity and privilege, there is a growing set of solutions to secure the anytime, anywhere workforce. Archit Lohokare, CyberArk’s vice president of product management, discusses passwordless authentication, zero trust and other ways enterprises are modernizing identity and access.
How can XDR help mitigate ransomware risks? Two experts - Assad Arabi, managing director, gulf cluster region, at Trend Micro, and Andrew Philp, sales leader at the company - offer insights.
Researchers at cybersecurity company Trend Micro have uncovered a new cyberespionage campaign in the Indo-Pacific region by Chinese advanced persistent threat group APT41, also known as Earth Baku.
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