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Stolen laptop leads to data breach

Lifespan Corporation recently suffered a possible data breach due to stolen laptop. The device belongs to Lifespan employee. An individual broke into employee’s car and stole laptop along with other...

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Security Patch at Twitter

One can send message to anyone using ‘@‘ from any given account in Twitter platform. But this arrangement is challenged by a security bug. Security researcher who goes by alias ‘Kedrisch’ reported this...

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Half of the third party softwares are outdated

Synopsys conducted a study of 128,782 software applications which shows that almost fifty percent are old. “Over time, vulnerabilities in third-party components are discovered and disclosed, leaving a...

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Series B funding for Trusona

Before four months, Ariz.-based Trusona has Series A funding of $8 million. Now, they have got additional funding of $10 million in a Series B round. This new round was led by Microsoft Ventures along...

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Kaspersky Lab Defends Allegations

Kaspersky Lab is accused of deep connections with Russia-based hacking efforts. The U.S. government has removed the firm from its vendor list which can be used for federal government. The step was...

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Corelight Rises Series A Funding

A San Francisco-based technology startup Corelight had raised $9.2 million in a Series A round of funding led by Accel Partners. Other participants include Osage University Partners and Dr Steve...

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Breach at Italy’s Biggest Bank

The leading bank in Italy, UniCredit mentioned that approximately 400,000 of its customers’ data were affected after third party provider was hacked. The name of the third party is withheld. It is one...

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Fast Flux Botnets is a Security Risk

Attackers use many techniques which is hidden in nature. Akamai research mentioned that a botnet with over 14,000 IP addresses uses fast flux DNS technique to avoid detection. It is technique which...

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GDPR

HyTrust conducted survey of 323 attendees at the VMworld 2017 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. It found that only 21 percent are concerned about GDPR compliance regulations and plan to implement it....

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Google Encryption for Clouds

Largest cloud networks in the planet is operated by Google. It employs multiple techniques to keep the data secure. Company is now providing some insight about the encryption techniques. Google, like...

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