Category: cybercrime
Data is the world’s most valuable (and vulnerable) resource
There’s a gaping hole in the data loss prevention market Kara Nortman 19 hours Kara Nortman Contributor More posts by this contributor Consumer-oriented investors may have an edge investing in digital health There’s no overstating it: 2020 was a hell of a year. When future generations learn about 2020, the…
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Notion’s hours-long outage was caused by phishing complaints
Last week’s hours-long outage at online workspace startup Notion was caused by phishing complaints, according to the startup’s domain registrar. Notion was offline for most of the morning on Friday, plunging its more than four million users into organization darkness because of what the company called a “very unusual DNS…
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Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos have started a cyber consulting firm
Former U.S. cybersecurity official Chris Krebs and former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos have founded a new cybersecurity consultancy firm, which already has its first client: SolarWinds . The two have been hired as consultants to help the Texas-based software maker recover from a devastating breach by suspected Russian…
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2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem
A look back at notable funding trends, rounds and exits Naama Ben Dov 8 hours Naama Ben Dov Contributor Naama Ben Dov is an associate at YL Ventures who researches new investment opportunities, analyzes investments through thorough due diligence and provides value-add to portfolio companies. From COVID-19’s curve to election…
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5 questions every IT team should be able to answer
When the CEO comes calling, are you prepared? Christy Wyatt 18 hours Christy Wyatt Contributor Christy Wyatt is Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors at Absolute, a leader in endpoint resilience solutions and the industry’s only undeletable defense platform embedded in over a half-billion devices.…
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US Fertility says patient data was stolen in a ransomware attack
U.S. Fertility, one of the largest networks of fertility clinics in the United States, has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack and that data was taken. The company was formed in May as a partnership between Shady Grove Fertility, a fertility clinic with dozens of locations across the…
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