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Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The round was led by Prefix Capital and ForgePoint Capital, with participation from Accenture Ventures, as well as individual investors Tom Gonser, founder of DocuSign; Omkhar Arasarathnam, engineering director at Google Cloud; Bob Gleichauf, EVP at InQTel and ex-CTO at Cisco; David Tsao, VP of security engineering at Marqeta; and Sameer Sait, CISO at Amazon…

Malware & Threats

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Scheduling and patient medical records were affected and some cancer patients faced delays in treatment. It took months for the University of Vermont Health Network to recover from the attack, estimated to cost upwards of $63 million. The network is insured for $30 million and officials are continuing to negotiate with the insurance companies, but…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

In a letter to customers, the company indicated that outsiders might have gained access to Social Security numbers, passport numbers, dates of birth, addresses and health information of people. The company declined to say how many people’s information was exposed. The breach comes after Carnival was hit twice last year by ransomware attacks. Carnival spokesman…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Security Week

Google announced end-to-end encryption is now available in Android, but only for one-on-one conversations between users of the Messages app. “No matter who you’re messaging with, the information you share is personal. End-to-end encryption in Messages helps keep your conversations more secure while sending. It ensures that no one can read the content of your…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

Google’s collaboration and productivity solution was already encrypting data, both when at rest and in transit, but the new feature is meant to provide additional control and ease of mind over the security of data. In addition to increasing the confidentiality of data, the feature also helps customers meet sovereignty and compliance requirements, as it…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

In a communiqué issued after the conclusion of the summit, G7 countries vowed to work together to “further a common understanding of how existing international law applies to cyberspace” and collaborate to “urgently address the escalating shared threat from criminal ransomware networks.” The G7 called on all states to “urgently identify and disrupt ransomware criminal networks operating…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

In a report to lawmakers, privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said Clearview AI‘s collection of images without consent and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)’s use of that database were illegal. The software startup has stockpiled more than three billion images grabbed from popular social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, as well as millions…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Ten of the issues were reported by external security researchers: one rated critical severity, seven high severity, and two medium severity. All are patched in Chrome 91.0.4472.101 for Windows, Mac and Linux. The most severe of these is CVE-2021-30544, a critical use-after-free bug that impacts BFCache, a browser optimization meant to enable instant back and…