Google this week announced that the latest Android patches resolve a total of 40 vulnerabilities, including several rated “critical.”
Google Patches Critical Android Vulnerabilities With June 2022 Updates
Musk Threatens to Walk Away From Twitter Deal
Network Security Firm Perimeter 81 Closes $100 Million Funding Round
Threat Awareness Firm HackNotice Raises $7 Million
Threat awareness startup HackNotice has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round led by Strategic Cyber Ventures and Lytical Ventures. The funding will primarily be used to build the team around an already mature product.
Critical Account Takeover Vulnerability Patched in GitLab Enterprise Edition
DevOps platform GitLab has announced security updates that resolve multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity bug leading to account takeover.
Apple Blocked 1.6 Million Risky, Vulnerable Apps in 2021
Apple says its App Store fraud prevention mechanisms last year stopped potentially fraudulent transactions totaling roughly $1.5 billion.
Throughout 2021, the company prevented more than 3.3 million stolen credit cards from making purchases in the App Store, and banned nearly 600,000 accounts from ever transacting again.
Personal Information of Over 30,000 Students Exposed in Unprotected Database
The personal information of more than 30,000 students was found on an improperly secured Elasticsearch server, security researchers with SafetyDetectives report.
The server, the researchers say, was left connected to the Internet and did not require a password to allow access to the data within.
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 36 Deals Announced in May 2022
Thirty-six cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in May 2022.
Beating Ransomware With Advanced Backup and Data Defense Technologies
Question: if we can mitigate file encryption ransomware with backup, can we mitigate double extortion by adding advanced PII protection through data encryption or tokenization?
Critical U-Boot Vulnerability Allows Rooting of Embedded Systems
A critical vulnerability in the U-Boot boot loader could be exploited to write arbitrary data, which can allow an attacker to root Linux-based embedded systems, according to NCC Group.
