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Kaspersky has responded to an advisory issued against it by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) saying users should replace its products by claiming the warning is politically motivated. “We believe this decision is not based on a Read More …
A Russian national working for a cybersecurity company has been extradited to the U.S. where he is being charged for hacking into computer networks of two U.S.-based filing agents used by multiple companies to file quarterly and annual earnings through Read More …
There has been considerable debate within the cybersecurity community about Randori, a security firm that waited one year before disclosing a critical buffer overflow bug it discovered in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect VPN. The zero-day — which has a severity Read More …
An investor group has acquired cybersecurity giant McAfee Corporation for more than $14 billion. Led by Advent International Corporation, Permira Advisers, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, GIC Private, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Read More …
Qualys has revealed that a “limited” number of customers may have been impacted by a data breach connected to an Accellion zero-day vulnerability. The cloud security and compliance firm said on Wednesday that the security incident did not have any Read More …
Fortinet has fixed multiple severe vulnerabilities impacting its products. The vulnerabilities range from Remote Code Execution (RCE) to SQL Injection, to Denial of Service (DoS) and impact the FortiProxy SSL VPN and FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) products. Multiple advisories Read More …
Leading French cybersecurity company StormShield disclosed that their systems were hacked, allowing a threat actor to access the company’s support ticket system and steal source code for Stormshield Network Security firewall software. StormShield is a French cybersecurity firm that develops Read More …
Anti-virus software creator John McAfee has been detained at a Spanish airport after being indicted in the US on fraud charges, according to the Reuters news agency. McAfee, who designed software of the same name, was reportedly arrested in Barcelona Read More …
The chief executive of cyber fraud prevention company NS8 has been arrested and charged for defrauding the firm’s own investors. Adam Rogas was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and US Securities and Exchange Commission Read More …
Most popular, well-established cybersecurity solutions do not protect their users from all notable threats, according to new analysis from SE Labs. The security firm tested 14 of the world’s most popular cybersecurity solutions and, while products from Microsoft and Kaspersky Read More …
