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Pearson agreed to pay $1 million for 2018 Data Theft

CyberSecurity Insiders

To deteriorate the cyber risk, Pearson filed an annual review report in July 2019 saying there was a significant possibility of student Dobs and email addresses stolen in the cyber attack, when it actually knew that the records were indeed stolen. web-based software that helps in keeping a track of student academic performance.

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Flashpoint Acquires Vulnerability Intelligence Leader Risk Based Security

CyberSecurity Insiders

This is a game changer for security teams and represents a vital step towards achieving Flashpoint’s vision of being the single vendor that enterprises can rely on to mitigate all types of security risks and protect critical assets.”. I am incredibly excited to welcome the RBS team to Flashpoint,” said Flashpoint CEO Josh Lefkowitz.

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Episode 243: The CSTO is a thing- a conversation with Chris Hoff of LastPass

The Security Ledger

Writing in 2011 i n the Wall Street Journal , Andreessen predicted that, in the next 10 years, he expected many more industries to be disrupted by software. . The phrase was intended to capture the trend of formerly brick and mortar businesses – indeed, entire industries- shifting to a software and services model.

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Report finds old misconfiguration woes continue to hammer corporate clouds

SC Magazine

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. Misconfigured buckets and leaky APIs continue to be the biggest and most impactful cloud security holes for businesses. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Spotlight Podcast: Synopsys’ Dan Lyon on the Challenge of Securing Connected Medical Devices

The Security Ledger

The late, great device hacker Barnaby Jack demonstrated an over the air attack on an insulin pump at a hacker conference in Miami way back in 2011. The question is this: why is it that sophisticated, multi national firms that make medical devices have such a hard time addressing cyber risk in their products?

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. AllegisCyber Investments.

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Episode 257: Securing Software on Wheels with Dennis Kengo Oka of Synopsys

The Security Ledger

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#257) Paul speaks with Dennis Kengo Oka, a senior principal automotive security strategist at the firm Synopsys about the growing cyber risks to automobiles as connected vehicle features proliferate in the absence of strong cybersecurity protections. Read the whole entry. »