GE Digital has released patches and mitigations for two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Proficy CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA software, which is used by plants around the world to monitor and control operations.
A Nigerian national pleaded guilty in a U.S. court for his role in a scheme to hack into thousands of user accounts maintained by a payroll processing company, to steal payroll deposits.
Web infrastructure and DDoS mitigation firm Cloudflare has announced plans to purchase Area 1, a Kleiner-Perkins-backed startup doing business in the competitive email security space.
Cisco this week announced the availability of patches for four vulnerabilities in its FXOS and NX-OS network operating systems, including one denial of service bug that was reported by the NSA.
Customer relationship management services provider Salesforce says it has handed out more than $12.2 million in payouts to the ethical hackers who reported vulnerabilities as part of its bug bounty program.
Israeli startup Astrix Security has banked $15 million in early stage venture capital investment to build technology to help organizations secure third-party app integrations.
The Tel Aviv-based Astrix said the seed round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and F2 Capital. Venrock and a list of angel investors also participated.
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with two critical flaws in the Zabbix enterprise monitoring solution.
Canadian cybersecurity vendor eSentire has scored $325 million in new financing at a heady valuation north of a billion dollars.
An analysis of a January attack targeting Iran’s national media corporation has found the use of multiple malware families, including a data-wiper and custom backdoors.
