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Special Meeting of Stockholders to Vote on Pending Acquisition by Thoma Bravo to be Scheduled for Later Date Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced its Board of Directors has cancelled the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for June 15, 2021. This follows the previously announced definitive agreement, pursuant to which Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector, will acquire…

By Adam Nichols, Principal of Software Security at GRIMM The technology we use and depend upon has critical vulnerabilities in their software and firmware, lurking just beneath the surface of the code. Yet, our process has not changed.  A week does not go by where we are not reading about a serious vulnerability in the news and subsequently scrambling to see if we are affected. This scramble, this mad dash, is a process we have…

By Don Boxley, Co-founder and CEO, DH2i When it comes to optimizing Microsoft SQL Server high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), there’s a strong correlation between greater database transaction processing performance, business resiliency, and profitability—particularly for workloads like those in industries like financial services, though certainly other sectors as well. The fact is that our world is connected yet fragile, which creates many challenges when it comes to database HA/DR—specifically with resilience, security, and…

The restaurant chain reportedly said no U.S. customer data was exposed and the attack did not involve ransomware. Image: seksan Mongkhonkhamsao/Moment/Getty Images McDonald’s is the latest company to fall victim to a cyberattack exposing customer and other data in the U.S., Taiwan and China, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The restaurant giant reportedly told the paper that it has hired external investigators to analyze unauthorized activity on an internal security system. No U.S. customer…

On May 12, the President signed the executive order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. As with every executive order, it establishes timelines for compliance and specific requirements of executive branch agencies to provide specific plans to meet the stated objectives. It is clear from the EO that the Executive Office of the President is putting significant emphasis on cyber threat intelligence and how it will help government agencies make better decisions about responding to…

The chief operating officer of an IoT security company has been indicted by a federal grand jury over a cyber-attack carried out on a hospital in Georgia.  Vikas Singla, of Marietta, Georgia, was arraigned on Thursday for his alleged role in the 2018 attack on Gwinnett Medical Center that exposed patients’ personal data.  The center, which is now known as Northside Hospital, was a not-for-profit health care network that provided health care services at two hospitals located in Georgia;…

The Biden administration has launched a new national artificial intelligence task force to make more government data available to AI researchers. News of the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource Task Force was announced on Thursday by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). A key role of the task force will be to serve as a federal advisory committee, assisting the creation and implementation of a blueprint…

Potential buyers could be interested in using the source code to game the game to make millions, perhaps sounding EA’s death knell in the process. Image: ValeryBrozhinsky, Getty Images/iStockphoto The news that games giant Electronic Arts was hacked and the source code and software development kits to many popular games like FIFA 21 and 22 as well as the source code to Frostbite, the games engine that powers many of popular titles such as Madden,…

A data breach at fast food restaurant McDonald’s has impacted customers and employees in South Korea and Taiwan and company operations in the United States. The breach, which was first reported Friday by the Wall Street Journal, was the result of a cyber-attack. Hackers who broke into the computer system of McDonald’s Corp. accessed only a small number of files before their intrusion was detected. During their period of unauthorized access, the cyber-criminals stole personal information belonging to…

How did we build the internet and not secure it? By David Jemmett, CEO and Founder, Cerberus Sentinel Many people are under the impression that the internet is essentially safe and secure. We use the internet daily for email, shopping, and social interaction. We depend on it for such essentials as our medical records, finances, homes, cars, schools, and power grid. All are reliant on the endless interconnected computer networks that we call the internet. The internet…