Faced with a surge in state-sponsored mercenary spyware attacks targeting its flagship iOS platform, Apple plans to add a new ‘Lockdown Mode’ that significantly reduces attack surface and adds technical roadblocks to limit sophisticated software exploits.
Security researchers at ReversingLabs are warning of a “significant escalation in software supply chain attacks” after discovering more than two dozen malicious NPM packages siphoning user data from mobile and desktop applications.
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has launched a one-week bug bounty program to reward researchers who find high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities in publicly accessible assets owned by the DoD.
Security automation startup Swimlane on Wednesday announced it has raised $70 million in a Series C funding round that brings the total investment in the company to $170 million.
A new variant of the Hive ransomware written using the Rust programming language is more evasive and provides attackers with flexibility, courtesy of support for command-line parameters.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced July 5, 2022, the first group of four encryption tools designed to tackle the looming threat of quantum computer crypto cracking capabilities. Four more are still being evaluated, and finalists from these will be announced in the future.
Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners.
Post-Quantum company awarded SBIR III contract to combat ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ threat from quantum computing
Chicago-based Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) startup oak9 has attracted new interest from venture capitalists with Cisco Investments and Morgan Stanley’s Next Level Fund joining a new $8 million funding round.
