Month: October 2022

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The round, which brings the total raised by the company to nearly $320 million, was led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The investment will be used to expand go-to-market strategies and enhance the company’s offering. Versa SASE offers security, networking, and analytics in a single software operating system. The solution is…

Application Security, Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

The new funding round was led by U.S. Venture Partners, with additional investment from Bess Ventures, Citi Ventures, Stanford University, World Trade Ventures, and angel investors. Founded in 2016, the Rockville, Maryland-based firm provides physical layer-based asset risk management capabilities, helping organizations deal with known and shadow IT assets at any scale. Basically, Sepio helps…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The penalties for serious breaches of the Privacy Act would increase from 2.2 million Australian dollars ($1.4 million) now to AU$50 million ($32 million) under amendments to be introduced to Parliament next week, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said. A company could also be fined the value of 30% of its revenues over a defined period if…

Application Security, Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

Trend Micro is presenting the research this week at SecurityWeek’s 2022 ICS Cyber Security Conference in Atlanta, which can also be joined online via SecurityWeek’s virtual event platform. Registration for the event is still open. CNC machines can be programmed to carry out a wide range of tasks with a high level of efficiency, consistency…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Security Week

The Cupertino device maker confirmed the active exploitation of CVE-2022-42827, warning in a barebones advisory that the flaw exposes iPhones and iPads to arbitrary code execution attacks. “An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” Apple said…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Previously known as Eeleyanet Gostar and Net Peygard Samavat, Emennet Pasargad is an organization that often changes its name to avoid US sanctions, and which is known for providing cybersecurity services to government entities in Iran. In November 2020, the US warned that Iranian hackers exploited known vulnerabilities to access voter registration data, and in…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

The company collects images of faces from websites and social media feeds without seeking permission and sells access to its vast database — reportedly around 20 billion pictures — to clients including law enforcement agencies. Privacy activists around the world have raised objections to the business model, already winning a case in the United States…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

Founded in 2012, the New York-based company offers Data Embassy, a software platform that aims to protect data in use by applying pseudonymization and other techniques to transform the data into ‘Variant Twins’, representing non-identifiable but fully accurate assets. Courtesy of multi-level data privacy and security controls, the company says, Variant Twins can be used…