Remove 2011 Remove Cyber Risk Remove Cybersecurity
article thumbnail

Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

Krebs on Security

One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. National Security Agency who now works as managing director of the cybersecurity firm Hunter Labs.

article thumbnail

Pearson agreed to pay $1 million for 2018 Data Theft

CyberSecurity Insiders

In what is known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, the penalty was pronounced by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as Pearson made false and misleading statements on the 2018 data breach that witnessed millions of student usernames and passwords stolen along with admin level login credentials of over 13,000 school and university pupils.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Achieving funding is no simple task, and cybersecurity entrepreneurs have a difficult path competing in a complex and competitive landscape. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

article thumbnail

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.

Risk 52
article thumbnail

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. . At the top of that list is cybersecurity. It’s how Amazon dethroned retail giants like Sears and Toys R Us, and Netflix transformed movie-watching.

CISO 52
article thumbnail

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).

article thumbnail

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. »