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2024 Startup Battlefield Top 20 Finalists: DGLegacy

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Wiz CEO says company was targeted with deepfake attack that used his voice

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Even cybersecurity companies aren’t safe from deepfake attacks. Speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Wiz’s CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport, who recently turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, noted that his employees had been targeted by a deepfake attack just two weeks ago. “Dozens of my employees got a

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Police operation claims takedown of prolific Redline and Meta password stealers

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A coalition of international law enforcement agencies say they have disrupted the operations of two prolific infostealers that stole the sensitive data of millions of people.  The Dutch National Police, who led the so-called “Operation Magnus” takedown, reports it gained “full access” to the servers used by the Redline and Meta infostealers.  Infostealers are a

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How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

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A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data breach, a “substantial proportion of people living in America” are receiving notice by mail that their personal and health information

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UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare data breach affects over 100 million people in America

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More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector. This is the first time that UnitedHealth Group, the U.S. health insurance provider that owns the health tech company,

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Apple will pay security researchers up to $1 million to hack its private AI cloud

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Ahead of the debut of Apple’s private AI cloud next week, dubbed Private Cloud Compute, the technology giant says it will pay security researchers up to $1 million to find vulnerabilities that can compromise the security of its private AI cloud. In a post on Apple’s security blog, the company said it would pay up

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SEC fines four companies $7 million for ‘misleading cyber disclosures’ regarding SolarWinds hack

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies for making misleading disclosures linked to the 2019 SolarWinds data breach.  The four companies charged are cybersecurity firms Check Point, which will pay a civil penalty of $995,000; Mimecast, which will pay $990,000; and the tech companies

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Researchers link Polyfill supply chain attack to huge network of copycat gambling sites

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One of the biggest digital supply chain attacks of the year was launched by a little-known company that redirected large numbers of internet users to a network of copycat gambling sites, according to security researchers.  Earlier this year, a company called FUNNULL purchased Polyfill.io, a domain hosting an open source JavaScript library that — if

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