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SUNNYVALE, Calif., February 3, 2022 – Proofpoint, Inc. (the “Company” or “Proofpoint”), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced year-end financial results for 2021.    “Our strong 2021 results are a testament to our team’s consistent execution and dedicated focus on protecting our customers from advanced threats and compliance risks,” stated Gary Steele, chief executive officer of Proofpoint. “As our business reaccelerates coming out of the pandemic, we see one clear trend: the risk is shifting to…

A Welsh home improvement firm has been fined £200,000 by the UK’s privacy watchdog after making more than half a million nuisance phone calls. Home2Sense Ltd of Lampeter made 675,478 nuisance calls between June 2020 and March 2021 to offer individuals insulation services, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). However, these people were registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS), meaning they had explicitly opted out of receiving unsolicited marketing calls. According to the UK’s…

Yet another cryptocurrency firm is offering a multimillion-dollar ‘bug bounty’ reward to those who hacked it after suffering a cyber-heist worth an estimated $322m. Wormhole operates what’s known as a cross-blockchain bridge, enabling holders of certain cryptocurrencies to transfer tokens, data and other assets between siloed blockchains. It offers this service to bridge Ethereum, Solana, BSC, Polygon, Avalanche, Oasis and Terra. In a brief statement late yesterday, the firm tweeted that its network was down while it investigated…

Every year we can count on new technology to make our lives easier. Right? As beneficial and convenient as tech can be, it can also pose risks to our online safety and privacy—risks that we should be prepared to handle. Increasingly, we’re seeing governments around the world implementing stricter privacy laws. And even major players like Google are phasing out invasive tracking technology like cookies. However, when it comes to activities like banking, shopping, taxes,…

As the competitive online gaming and eSports industries gain legitimacy by becoming more popular and attracting mainstream attention, the question of competitive integrity lingers in the back of my mind. Can the game’s developers, community, and users maintain and uphold competitive integrity? Or will they fold under the pressure of greed and complacency? Some of you may recall the “Konami Code” or the “Contra Code”: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A,…

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts where I’ll dive deeper into the Top 10 Cybersecurity Challenges enterprise organizations face, as found in our recently released Cybersecurity Insights Report 2022: The State of Cyber Resilience. Cybersecurity has become a major concern for businesses around the globe. The threat landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and cybercriminals continue to develop new ways to exploit vulnerabilities in systems. One of the key…