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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering.

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

Once a compromised USB drive was inserted into a system, Stuxnet was executed automatically via the vulnerability, infecting the host machine, propagating to other systems through network shares and additional USB drives. Shellshock” quickly became one of the most severe vulnerabilities discovered, comparable to Heartbleed’s potential impact.

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The Future of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

CIO

Not all that long ago, it was common for enterprises to rely on signature-based detection for malware, static firewall rules for network traffic and access control lists (ACLs) to define security policies. Gaining malware samples is a lot harder than acquiring data in image processing and NLP.

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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

TechCrunch

Botnet operators are known to scan the internet for devices with weak default passwords and hijack their internet connections to pummel victims with floods of internet traffic , knocking entire websites and networks offline. Mirai had ensnared thousands of IoT devices into its network at the time of the attack.

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‘If you compromise the bootloader, you pwn the whole phone’

The Parallax

The bootloader serves multiple purposes in making the computer work for its end users, including communicating with keyboards and mice, USB sticks and disk drives, monitors, and networking cards. READ MORE FROM PACSEC 2019. Hackers, historically, have not commonly targeted bootloaders. Have a Tesla Model 3?

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US Air Force seeks generative AI test pilots

CIO

(Guardians are enlisted members of the US Space Force, a service created under the DAF umbrella in 2019. They don’t train to fight in zero gravity, though: They are mostly computer experts charged with things like preventing cyberattacks, maintaining computer networks, and managing satellite communications.)

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Acronis raises $250M at a $2.5B+ valuation to double down on cyber protection services

TechCrunch

“With private equity investors like Goldman Sachs [which led its previous round in 2019] and CVC, they definitely expect liquidity at some point,” Beloussov said. “We didn’t need the money, but now we will invest it to grow faster and capitalise on our leadership,” Beloussov said in an interview. .”