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FTC charged Avast with selling users’ browsing data to advertising companies

Security Affairs

US FTC charged cyber security firm Avast with harvesting consumer web browsing data through its browser extension and antivirus and sold it. The antivirus firm is accused of selling the data to advertising companies without user consent. ” re ads the FTC’s complaint. ” re ads the FTC’s complaint.

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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

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NEW TECH: Trend Micro inserts ‘X’ factor into ‘EDR’ – endpoint detection and response

The Last Watchdog

Trend Micro is among the top five endpoint security vendors who’ve been in the battle since the earliest iterations of antivirus software, more than three decades ago. To be sure, legacy antivirus solutions were designed in an earlier age, based on the notion of prevention, and that was a valid approach in the early 2000s.

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What is not included in a Cyber Insurance Policy

CyberSecurity Insiders

From the client’s side, all PCs must have antivirus software and must be kept updated. Some policies do not cover losses incurred by a company indulging in illegitimate data collection of individuals or clients. The post What is not included in a Cyber Insurance Policy appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Drawing the RedLine – Insider Threats in Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

Data collection from FTP clients, IM clients. The post Drawing the RedLine – Insider Threats in Cybersecurity appeared first on Security Boulevard. Autocomplete fields. Credit cards. Supported browsers: All browsers based on Chromium (even latest version of Chrome). All Gecko-based browsers (Mozilla, etc.).

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Top 18 Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity products, services and professionals have never been in higher demand. A contributing factor to the cybersecurity skills gap is the large number of security startups that have been founded in recent years. According to a joint study by CBInsights and PwC, Cybersecurity startups received over $10.7 Cybereason.

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GUEST ESSAY: Here’s why managed security services — MSS and MSSP — are catching on

The Last Watchdog

The unification revolution of cybersecurity solutions has started – and managed security service providers are leading the way. The current unification in the cybersecurity market is driving a massive movement towards fewer vendors, which at the same time means more polarization of either using MSS/MSSP or doing the security work internally.

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