Valentine’s Day is fast-approaching and the story goes that if Cupid hits you with his golden arrow you’ll fall madly in love. And who doesn’t want to fall madly in love? But there are other actors taking aim at you on Valentine’s Day whose arrows you need to avoid as the outcomes aren’t nearly as desirable.
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Government Contractor Indicted Over Theft of Secret Documents
Harold Thomas Martin III, the former U.S. government contractor arrested last year for theft of classified material, was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury.
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“Ticketbleed” Flaw Exposes F5 Appliances to Remote Attacks
F5 Networks BIG-IP appliances are affected by a serious vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote attacker to extract memory. An Internet scan showed that hundreds of hosts had been exposed by the flaw.
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U.S. Queries PayPal in Money Laundering Probe
San Francisco – US authorities have demanded information from online payment service PayPal as part of a money laundering investigation, according to a regulatory filing available on Wednesday.
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Forcepoint Acquires Skyfence from Imperva
Forcepoint, the cybersecurity firm created from the $1.9 billion combination of Raytheon and Websense, today announced that it has agreed to acquire the Skyfence business from Imperva.
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Erebus Ransomware Bypasses UAC for Privilege Elevation
A newly observed ransomware variant is using a technique to bypass User Account Control (UAC) in order to elevate its privileges without displaying a UAC prompt, researchers have discovered.
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Rockwell Automation Teams With Claroty on Industrial Network Security
Rockwell Automation this week announced that it teaming up with industrial cybersecurity startup Claroty to combine their security products and services into future, combined security offerings.
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HackerOne Penetrates VC Pockets for $40 Million
Bug bounty platform provider HackerOne announced on Wednesday that it has raised $40 million in a Series C financing round led by Dragoneer Investment Group.
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HTTPS Security Weakened by AV Products, Middleboxes: Study
An increasing number of antiviruses and network appliances intercept TLS connections to gain visibility into encrypted traffic, but in many cases this weakens connection security and introduces vulnerabilities, according to a new study.
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Macro Malware Comes to macOS
After becoming a common occurrence on Windows-based computers over the past few years, Malware that abuses macro-enabled Microsoft Office documents to spread is now targeting macOS users too.
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