Cybercrime
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Trends
LA warns of ‘juice-jacking’ malware, but admits it has no cases
Los Angeles’ district attorney is warning travelers to avoid public USB charging points because “they may contain dangerous malware.” Reading…
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STARTUPS
Arceo.ai raises $37 million to expand cyber insurance coverage and access
Critical cyber attacks on both businesses and individuals have been grabbing headlines at an alarming rate. Cybersecurity has moved from…
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Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850,000 malware infections
In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million…
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Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform
Cybereason, which uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across a network of…
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Finance
VC funding of cybersecurity companies hits record $5.3B in 2018
2018 wasn’t all bad. It turned out to be a record year for venture capital firms investing in cybersecurity companies.…
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Only half of the Fortune 500 use DMARC for email security
When Homeland Security told all federal government departments last year to roll out a new email security policy to cut…
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California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices
Good news! California has passed a law banning default passwords like “admin,” “123456” and the old classic “password” in all…
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RiskRecon’s security assessment services for third-party vendors raises $25 million
In June of this year, Chinese hackers managed to install software into the networks of a contractor for the U.S.…
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