 In Focus: Analysis of More than 60,000 Breach Reports Over Three Years: Analysis of 60,000 breaches over the last three years provides extensive data on where things are going wrong, and highlights trends on what is likely in the future. Read More UScellular Breach Allowed Hackers to Port Customer Phone Numbers: Hackers tricked employees of UScellular into installing malware, used it to access CRM software, and accessed customer accounts. Read More Tanium Announces $150 Million Funding Investment From Ontario Teachers': The security firm wants to scale operations to better serve the middle market. Read More Elusive Lebanese Threat Actor Compromised Hundreds of Servers: Updated versions of Lebanese Cedar's Explosive RAT and Caterpillar web shell found on victim networks. Read More Attacks on Individuals Fall as Cybercrime Shifts Tactics: Cybercriminals shifted away from stealing individual consumers' information in 2020 to focus on bigger, more profitable attacks on businesses. Read More Encrypted Services Providers Concerned About EU Proposal for Encryption Backdoors: European encrypted services providers ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota have urged the EU to rethink a resolution that would require the implementation of encryption backdoors. Read More TPG Capital Acquires Majority Stake in PAM Solutions Provider Centrify: TPG will acquire a majority stake in Centrify from Thoma Bravo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More Many WordPress Sites Affected by Vulnerabilities in 'Popup Builder' Plugin: Impacting most AJAX methods, the Popup Builder plugin flaws can be abused to send newsletters, delete subscribers, and perform other site actions. Read More Apple CEO Escalates Battle With Facebook Over Online Privacy: Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off a series of thinly veiled shots at Facebook and other social media companies, escalating an online privacy battle pitting the iPhone maker against digital services that depend on tracking people to help sell ads. Read More Apple Adds 'BlastDoor' to Secure iPhones From Zero-Click Attacks: Apple has quietly fitted several anti-exploit mitigations into its flagship mobile operating system in what appears to be a specific response to zero-click iMessage attacks observed in the wild. Read More For Microsoft, Security is a $10 Billion Business: NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft generated a whopping $10 billion in security-related revenues in just the last 12 months and is now positioned as an enterprise cybersecurity powerhouse. Read More Many European CISOs Shift Focus to Mobile Security: Survey: A survey commissioned by Ivanti shows that a majority of CISOs in Europe have shifted the focus of their cybersecurity strategy to mobile devices due to increasing remote work. Read More Law Enforcement Planning Emotet Cleanup Operation Following Botnet Takedown: An update served by law enforcement will trigger the cleanup operation. Read More Apple to Crack Down on Tracking iPhone Users in Early Spring: Apple says it will roll out a new privacy control in the spring to prevent iPhone apps from secretly shadowing people. Read More Stack Overflow Shares Technical Details on 2019 Hack: Stack Overflow has shared technical details on how its systems were hacked in 2019, and it turns out that the attacker often viewed questions posted on Stack Overflow. Read More NetWalker Ransomware's Sites Seized by Law Enforcement: Law enforcement authorities in the U.S. and Europe have seized the dark web sites associated with the NetWalker ransomware operations and also charged a Canadian national in relation to the malware. Read More Ten-Year-Old Sudo Vulnerability Gives Root Privileges on Host: Qualys researchers discover a major security hole in the well-known Sudo utility. Read More | 
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