TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Valence Security , a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Department of Justice (DOJ) famously declared 2021 as the “worst year” for ransomware attacks, but it seems that title could be in 2022’s hands very soon. Enable multi-factor authentication on everything you have. Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies. Looking to solve some of the challenges around authentication, Keith Graham and Stephen Cox co-founded Strivacity , a startup that allows companies to create secure business-to-business and business-to-consumer sign-in experiences.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Now, cybersecurity startup Nudge Security is emerging from stealth to help organizations tackle what they think is the biggest cybersecurity weakness: people. As these big names demonstrate, these kinds of attacks can be hard for even the most well-resourced organizations to protect against.

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Tenable

JUNE 29, 2020

Critical authentication bypass vulnerability in PAN-OS devices could be exploited in certain configurations, which are commonly recommended by identity providers. CVE-2020-2021 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication in PAN-OS. Pulse Connect Secure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When developers are creating a new application, they may build security features over time or take advantage of commercial offerings or open source libraries to implement certain security functions such as authentication or secrets management. There’s a lot of things that applications need that are securely related.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Gone are the days of pervasive endpoint and network security,” Caulfield told TechCrunch in an email interview. Investing in identity security is a must-have for enterprise security teams.” billion into identity vendors in 2021, up from $1.3 VC firms poured $2.3 billion in 2020, according to Crunchbase data.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Cybersecurity cannot stand still, or the waves of innovation will overrun the shores. Multifactor authentication fatigue and biometrics shortcomings Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a popular technique for strengthening the security around logins. Cybersecurity budgets are typically caught between these two forces.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Twenty five years after the launch of CVE, the Tenable Security Response Team has handpicked 25 vulnerabilities that stand out for their significance. The Tenable Security Response Team has chosen to highlight the following 25 significant vulnerabilities, followed by links to product coverage for Tenable customers to utilize.

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Tenable

APRIL 20, 2021

Threat actors are leveraging a zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure, for which there is no immediate patch scheduled for release. On April 20, Pulse Secure, which was acquired by Ivanti last year, published an out-of-cycle security advisory (SA44784) regarding a zero-day vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN appliance.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Jamf , the enterprise Apple device management company, announced that it was acquiring Wandera , a zero trust security startup, for $400 million at the market close today. It is the leader in the market, and snagging Wandera provides a missing modern security layer for the platform. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. GitGuardian estimates that app security engineers on average have to handle over 3,400 secrets occurrences.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 23, 2020

According to a report by Cybersecurity Ventures , global cybercrime costs are expected to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5 That’s why IT security continues to be the No. Cybersecurity Threats to Be Aware of in 2021. Remote Worker Endpoint Security. Cloud-Based Threats.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Leveraging a visual coding language called Flowlang, Uiflow users can build apps that work with public cloud services, ostensibly while preserving security and deployment on their own servers. Uiflow recently added support for “multi-page” apps that can be secured behind authentication. Image Credits: Uiflow.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

That’s the scenario Karamba Security is trying to prevent. Karamba’s secret lies in how its award-winning products , Carwall and SafeCAN, respectively protect cars’ electronic control units, or ECUs, and controller area networks, or CAN buses , which are notorious weak spots in car computer security. billion by 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As a result, there were almost 1,800 publicly reported data breaches in the first six months of 2021 alone, accounting for the exposure of 18.8 Saying that, our technology starts with supporting usernames and passwords, but it can support biometric authentication.”. billion records.

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Tenable

AUGUST 5, 2021

Pulse Secure has patched CVE-2021-22937, a patch bypass for CVE-2020-8260, in its Connect Secure products. This vulnerability is a patch bypass for CVE-2020-8260 which Pulse Secure addressed in October 2020 with version 9.1R9. Pulse Secure released PCS 9.1R12 to address this and several other vulnerabilities.

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Tenable

JANUARY 3, 2025

1 - CISA: How VIPs and everyone else can secure their mobile phone use In light of the hacking of major telecom companies by China-affiliated cyber spies, highly targeted people should adopt security best practices to protect their cell phone communications. Another good MFA option: authenticator codes. So said the U.S.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Over 100,00 organizations are expected to be impacted by Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) cybersecurity standards that European Union (EU) member states must implement by October 2024. [i] This concept of least-privilege access is fundamental to Zero Trust Security practices.

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Tenable

MARCH 14, 2025

government sent this week via an advisory to cybersecurity teams, especially those at critical infrastructure organizations. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), which issued the joint advisory with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).

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Tenable

APRIL 13, 2021

One month after disclosing four zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server, Microsoft addresses four additional vulnerabilities discovered by the National Security Agency (NSA). On April 13, as part of its April 2021 Patch Tuesday release , Microsoft addressed four critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. CVE-2021-28480.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 2, 2021

As we gear up for a return to school, aligned with the latest COVID-19 guidance to keep students, their parents and teachers healthy, it’s also critical to remember to practice basic cybersecurity hygiene to stay safe online. . This is a security best practice that everyone struggles with. 3 Tips for a Safe Return to School.

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Tenable

MARCH 11, 2022

The 2021 Threat Landscape Retrospective explored the top five vulnerabilities of the year. When putting together the Threat Landscape Retrospective (TLR) for 2021 , the Security Response Team had a particularly difficult challenge picking the top five vulnerabilities for the year out of the many candidates. CVE-2021-26855.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Sure, there are some security features, such as email validation and two-factor authentication. But you’re essentially relying on the security team of your favorite exchange. ZenGo and other non-custodial wallets put you in charge of security. You’re acting as your own crypto bank.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Top 5 Python Frameworks in 2021. It comprises URL navigation, dbms configuration management and paradigm upgrades, as well as authentication, virtual server integration, a template engine, and an object-relational mapper (ORM). It employs a versatile method to secure authorisation and verification. Conclusion.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 8, 2021

SonicWall Urges Users to Patch Several Vulnerabilities in Secure Mobile Access Products (CVE-2021-20038). Wed, 12/08/2021 - 12:26. SonicWall patched eight vulnerabilities in its Secure Mobile Access 100 product line. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2021-20038 Unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow 9.8 Claire Tills.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 11, 2017

PRAGUE—Relying on microchipped identification cards isn’t a bad idea, says security researcher Petr Svenda of Masaryk University. Svenda’s research here was at the heart of a major vulnerability uncovered in October of an electronic-authentication technology used by numerous corporations and governments around the world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code.

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Tenable

JUNE 29, 2021

At the end of June, two different research teams published information about CVE-2021-1675 , a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler that has been named PrintNightmare. Discovery was credited to Zhipeng Huo of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab, Piotr Madej of AFINE and Yunhai Zhang of NSFOCUS TIANJI Lab.

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Tenable

MARCH 2, 2021

CVE-2021-26855. CVE-2021-26857. CVE-2021-26858. CVE-2021-27065. CVE-2021-26855 is a SSRF vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server. Successful exploitation of this flaw would allow the attacker to authenticate to the Exchange Server. Vulnerability Type. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

ForgeRock filed its form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this morning as the identity management provider takes the next step toward its IPO. With the ever-increasing volume of cybersecurity attacks against organizations of all sizes, the need to secure and manage user identities is of growing importance.

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Kaseya

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Cybersecurity affects the everyday lives of most IT practitioners and IT leaders worldwide, with more than 50 percent of them citing “Improving IT Security” as a top priority in 2021 as per our 2020 IT Operations Survey Results Report. Here are a few steps your organization should take to improve its cybersecurity posture.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What would attract nearly 10,000 security professionals across 100+ countries to take time from a busy life in cyber defense? Palo Alto Networks Ignite — a three-day event, November 15-18, 2021 — brought together customers, executives, technologists, security experts, threat researchers and policy makers.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Microsoft patched 55 CVEs in the November 2021 Patch Tuesday release, including six rated as critical, and 49 rated as important. CVE-2021-42321 | Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. CVE-2021-42321 is a RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server. 6 Critical. 49 Important. 0 Moderate. Azure RTOS.

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Tenable

AUGUST 5, 2021

On August 4, Cisco released several security advisories , including an advisory for two vulnerabilities in a subset of its line of Small Business VPN Routers. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2021-1609 Web Management Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability 9.8 CVE-2021-1610 Web Management Command Injection Vulnerability 7.2

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Get the latest on salary trends for CISOs and cybersecurity pros; CISA’s call for adopting phishing-resistant MFA; the White House’s ransomware summit; and more! and Canada improved this year compared with 2021 as employers paid up to retain their cybersecurity chiefs amidst a shortage of qualified candidates for these jobs.

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