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The cybersecurity industry is being urged to submit feedback on UK government proposals to place new security requirements on app store operators and developers. The consultation period for the plans ends at 11.45 pm BST on Wednesday, June 29, meaning industry experts have just days to submit their views before the government moves forward with the new code of practice. The proposals were published last month to provide stronger security and privacy protections for app users. A report published in…

Sentry was started as an open source project by David Cramer in 2008 to provide monitoring services for application developers. Cramer and co-founder Chris Jennings bootstrapped the company from the ground up, organically growing the business to over 3.5 million developers today. Sentry’s open source and cloud-based offerings support 100+ languages and frameworks and provide developers with visibility into the health of their applications. Under Cramer’s guidance as CTO, Sentry has grown beyond errors to…

Commercial real-estate company JLL’s automation of its source-to-pay process, like many enterprise IT projects today, had its origin in the pandemic. As COVID began to close offices around the world, many enterprises faced challenges managing or monitoring cashflow, JLL among them. “We were watching cash coming in and cash out the door, given the situation that most large organizations were in,” says CIO George Thomas, who oversees enterprise IT at JLL, including data centers, ERP…

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of June 20, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Over a Dozen Flaws Found in Siemens’ Industrial Network Management System Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of 15 security flaws in Siemens SINEC network management system (NMS), some…

Police from Europe and South America have teamed up to take action against an organized crime group involved in human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Between 20-23 June, they swooped on 14 locations, arrested 10 and interviewed eight victims. Among items seized in the searches were vehicles, electronic equipment, hard drives, over 40 mobile phones, SIM cards, documents, payment cards and about €20,000 in cash. Europol supported the French Border Police, the Spanish National Police, the…

A leading US regulator has fined CafePress half a million dollars following a 2019 data breach that impacted 23 million customers. Consumer rights agency the FTC argued in its finalized order that the online merchandise site failed to implement reasonable security measures to protect the info of buyers and sellers and that it even tried to cover up the breach. Directed at previous owner Residual Pumpkin Entity and current owner PlanetArt, which bought CafePress in 2020, an…

As the world emerged from the pandemic and record low levels of fuel consumption, oil and gas levels have rapidly recovered, with 2021 prices their highest levels in six years. However, in 2022, despite high prices at the petrol stations, wholesale oil and gas prices have started cooling. Fundamentally, demand remains strong, with economies picking up and the removal of border restrictions, along with an emphasis on capital discipline and particularly fiscal health. However, more…

The Netherlands has positioned itself as an emerging medtech powerhouse, with more than 1,100 healthcare technology startups – more than three times as many relative to population size when compared to neighbouring Germany. The meteoric rise of the healthtech industry can be attributed to increasing costs for healthcare (which were up by approximately €9 billion in the Netherlands last year); the COVID-19 pandemic, which accelerated medical innovations; and the exponential growth of emerging technologies such…