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A group of three U.S. senators and 13 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent a letter to Juniper Networks Inc. seeking to discover the outcome of an investigation by the company into encryption backdoors found in its ScreenOS operating system …
Telehealth company Babylon Health exposes customer consultations in data breach
U.K. telehealth company Babylon Healthcare Services Ltd. has suffered a data breach, allowing users to view video consultations of others. The data breach was first discovered by a user who said on Twitter Tuesday that he had access to more than 50 video …
Emergency response technology startup RapidSOS raises $21M
Emergency response technology startup RapidSOS Inc. revealed today that it has raised $21 million in new funding to expand globally. The Series C round was led by Transformation Capital and included C5 Capital, Laerdal Million Lives Fund and a number of existing investors. Founded in …
Facebook sues Indian registrar for domain fraud
Facebook Inc. has filed a lawsuit against an Indian domain registrar for fraud relating to 12 domain names registered with the company. The lawsuit targets Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd., a private company in Mumbai that offers domain name and proxy services. The domain …
Honda factories taken offline following Snake ransomware attack
Carmaker Honda Motor Co. has been forced to halt production in some global factories following a successful cyberattack. The form of the attack, not detailed by Honda and described today only as a virus, involved Snake ransomware, according to cybersecurity researchers. Because of …
‘Dark Basin’ hacking group targeted thousands in hack-for-hire scheme
A group based in India has been exposed as being behind the hacking of thousands across the globe for at least seven years as part of a hack-for-hire scheme. Dubbed Dark Basin in a report into the group released today by The …
Vroom shares up 118% on debut as Nasdaq hits record high
Shares in online used-car seller Vroom Inc. more than doubled in their debut on the Nasdaq today as the market itself briefly broke 10,000 for the first time. Shares of Vroom, which filed to go public in May, opened at $22, above an initial …
Report finds strong relationship between security and engineering in DevOps
A new report from Cobalt.io has found that there is a increasingly strong relationship between security and engineering in DevOps, in which software developers and information technology departments work closely together to create applications faster and better. The State of Pentesting: 2020 …
CallStranger vulnerability in UPnP devices opens the door to data theft
A vulnerability found in billions of Universal Plug and Play devices allows attackers to steal data, scan networks and potentially cause a network to participate in the distributed denial-of-service attack. Dubbed CallStranger, the vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Yunus Çadirci in December and …
ConsenSys launches compliance service for Ethereum blockchain tokens
Blockchain startup ConsenSys AG today launched a new compliance service designed to help exchanges and decentralized finance projects analyze trading activities of tokens issued on the Ethereum blockchain. Called Codefi Compliance, the automated service scans blockchains for regulatory compliance including anti-money laundering, countering …