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Recorded Future has announced a $52m deal to enhance its threat intelligence capabilities with the acquisition of Gemini Advisory. The self-proclaimed “world’s largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security” said the combination of both companies’ capabilities would give customers a critical edge in their efforts to rapidly mitigate cyber-threats. “In a short time, Gemini Advisory has become a leader in the fraud space with unique offerings in both payment card intelligence and merchant fraud intelligence,” argued…

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced registration is open for the sixth annual Women Transforming Technology (WT2) Conference taking place May 3-4, 2021. This will be the second year the event is held virtually and everyone is invited to participate. WT2 is designed to continue the important conversation on … Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW),…

The FBI has issued an alert to education sector organizations in the US and UK of an uptick in multi-stage double extortion attacks using the Pysa ransomware variant. Also known as Mespinoza, Pysa has been detected targeting higher education institutions, K-12 schools and seminaries in 12 US states and the UK. The variant has been tracked by the FBI since March 2020 in attacks on multiple sectors including US and foreign governments, healthcare and private…

Proofpoint researchers say it steals logins and spreads more malware. Researchers with Proofpoint released details today on new undocumented malware called CopperStealer.   CopperStealer has many of the same targeting and delivery methods as SilentFade, a Chinese-sourced malware family first reported by Facebook in 2019. Proofpoint believes Copperstealer is a previously undocumented family within the same class of malware as SilentFade. The Copperstealer malware attempts to steal the account passwords to Facebook, Instagram, Google, and other major…

By Yuval Baron, CEO at AlgoSec, explains why micro-segmentation is one of the most effective methods to limit the damage of attacks on a network On August 15, 2020, the cruise line Carnival Corporation fell victim to a cyber-attack that may have resulted in the loss of personal data of millions of passengers and crew members. Carnival is the world’s largest travel and leisure company with approximately 13 million passengers per year. The company has…

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets. The Data Governance Institute defines it as “a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes, executed according to agreed-upon models which describe who can take what actions with what information,…