It’s well-known that many cyberattacks take advantage of vulnerabilities in software that has not been updated, but in 2021, why are companies often slack in installing patches? A new report from Ivanti Inc. may provide answers to that question. The company surveyed information technology and security professionals and found that 71% consider patching overly complex, cumbersome ...

A newly proposed law that would force companies to disclose a ransom payment following a ransomware attack to the U.S. government has received mixed responses from the cybersecurity community. The proposal law, the Ransomware Disclosure Act, has been introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren (pictured) and Representative Deborah Ross. The bicameral bill is pitched as allowing ...

Amazon.com Inc.-owned livestreaming service Twitch has been hacked and the stolen data has been shared online. The breach, revealed today, involved 125 gigabytes of stolen data that was shared as a “torrent” to the 4chan forum. The data included the service’s source code, details of an unreleased Steam competitor, internal security tools, three years’ worth ...

Data acceleration solutions startup NeuroBlade Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $83 million in new funding to increase the company’s engineering, sales and marketing teams globally. Corner Ventures led the Series B round. Also participating in the round were Intel Capital, StageOne Ventures, Grove Ventures, Marius Nacht, MediaTek, Pegatron, Powerchip Semiconductor, United Microelectronics and Marubeni. Including the ...

Israeli security management platform startup A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. announced today it has raised $30 million in new funding to expand operations and its business reach. Insight Partners led the Series A round. Also participating in the round were Okta Ventures and Vertex Ventures Israel. Including the new funding, Adaptive Shield has raised $34 million to date, ...

Facebook Inc. today provided details of its global outage that saw its services offline on Monday, and the explanation is bizarrely simplistic: It was a routine maintenance error. In a blog post, Santosh Janardhan, vice president of engineering and infrastructure at Facebook, said the outage was triggered by a system that manages the social networking ...

Software-as-a-service embeddable integrations startup Integry Inc. launched out of stealth mode today with the announcement of $3 million in new funding to accelerate product development. Bonfire Ventures and Operative Collective led the seed round. Also participating in the round were Basecamp, Silicon Bandia, Pencil Ventures and a number of angel investors. Founded in 2017, Integry offers a cloud-based ...

Ahead of its annual BlackBerry Security Summit, the BlackBerry Ltd. Research & Intelligence team today unveiled new research into Advanced Persistent Threat group 41, finding that it was linked to far more hacking campaigns than previously known. APT 41, also known as Wicked Panda and Winti, is a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that has previously been linked ...

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. today announced the availability of a new ransomware assessment service. The new service is designed to provide companies with visibility into their ransomware exposure and automate the patching and configuration changes needed to reduce risk immediately. The Qualys Ransomware Risk Assessment Service leverages a single, dynamic dashboard to provide a clear, comprehensive view ...

Researchers at Sophos Group plc have released details of new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor. The ransomware attack was first discovered at 12:30 a.m. on Sunday when those behind the attack broke into a TeamViewer account running on a computer that belonged to a ...