Application Security

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

“This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. “Its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates.” He…

Application Security, Mobile Security, Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The number of cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions announced in the past months has remained constant, with 41 deals announced in October 2021. October 1-10 11:11 Systems acquires Green Cloud Defense Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems acquired Green Cloud Defense, a cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider that specializes in managed cloud security solutions. The deal will help…

Application Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Any organization that’s actively working on managing its cybersecurity risk can’t ignore the risk that goes with third-party vendors having access to its critical systems and customer data. “Up until today, organizations of all sizes have had to design and implement their own security baselines for vendors that align with their risk posture. Unfortunately, this…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

The defendant is Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko, whom Facebook says used the online monikers “Solomame” and “barak_obama” on the RaidForums hacker forum, where he allegedly sold illegally obtained information. According to the social media giant, Solonchenko, who worked as a freelance computer programmer, abused its Contact Importer tool to scrape the user IDs and phone numbers…

Application Security, Cloud Security, Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

A total of 15 cybersecurity-related acquisitions were announced October 11-24, 2021. Ampa acquires CSS Assure Legal and professional services company Ampa has acquired cybersecurity firm CSS Assure, which specializes in data protection and risk management. Both companies are based in the UK. The CSS Assure brand will remain. Cellebrite acquires Digital Intelligence Israel-based digital intelligence…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

First released in 1997, L0phtCrack can be used to test password strength and recover lost Windows passwords via dictionary, brute-force, and other types of attacks. L0phtCrack was originally developed by Peiter Zatko, also known as Mudge, of the L0pht hacker think tank. L0pth then merged with @stake, which was acquired by Symantec in 2004. It…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

The latest funding round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Mayo Clinic, AVG Basecamp Fund, Accenture Ventures, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Flyover Capital, KCRise Fund, NextGen Venture Partners, and Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health. The Kansas City, Missouri-based company provides a private data sharing solution designed to enable enterprises to collaborate with others…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

First discovered in January this year, Necro Python is also tracked as N3Cr0m0rPh, FreakOut, Python.IRCBot and is known for attempting to exploit multiple known vulnerabilities. In late September, the botnet added to its arsenal an exploit targeting a security vulnerability in Visual Tools DVR VX16 4.2.28.0, according to a warning from Juniper Threat Labs. Based…