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T-Mobile, one of the world's largest telecommunications providers and mobile networks, admitted this week that over 40 million customers had been impacted by a data breach. With a reported 104 million T-Mobile customers, this latest breach has hit a significant number of the user base. The company released a statement saying "a highly sophisticated cyberattack" was to blame for the exposure. Of the information breached, social security numbers, names, phone numbers, and account pins were...

Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, today announced Oscar Miranda as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Healthcare. His appointment, the company says, further reinforces Armis' strategic commitment to securing the healthcare sector, particularly when it comes to identifying and providing mitigation steps for vulnerabilities associated with connected devices within the healthcare ecosystem.   According to a recently published article by Fortified Health Security (Fortified), a strategic partner of Armis, more...

Researchers at Comparitech, the security and privacy advice and comparison website, have conducted an assessment of reported figures released by the police and/or government, to reveal that victims worldwide lose an estimated $318bn each year to cybercrime. Unfortunately, the UK specifically was found to have the highest number of reported cybercrime victims with 1,095 victims per 100,000 people in 2020 alone. By the researcher's calculations, in terms of monetary losses, the UK ranked third highest...

Feedzai, the cloud-based financial risk management platform company, has announced the acquisition of an advanced behavioural biometric platform, Revelock, following a significant $200m investment round earlier this year. Feedzai’s acquisition of Revelock will create "the world’s largest AI-powered financial risk management platform with native, integrated behavioural biometrics", the company states. The integrated platform enables financial institutions and merchants across the globe to detect and prevent financial crime before it occurs by taking advantage of hypergranular, risk-level...

UPDATED: Researchers at Armis have discovered nine critical vulnerabilities in the Nexus Control Panel, which powers all current models of Translogic’s pneumatic tube system (PTS) stations by Swisslog Healthcare. The Translogic PTS system is a critical infrastructure for healthcare used in more than 3,000 hospitals worldwide. The system is responsible for delivering medications, blood products, and various lab samples across multiple departments of a hospital. The discovered vulnerabilities can enable an unauthenticated attacker to take...

This week, Synopsys announced the availability of new Rapid Scan capabilities in its Coverity static application security testing (SAST) and Black Duck software composition analysis (SCA) solutions. The Rapid Scan features provide fast, lightweight vulnerability detection for both proprietary and open source code. Rapid Scan is optimised for the early stages of development, particularly for cloud-native applications and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). While comprehensive and thorough security testing is critical to managing risk in the later stages...

What were the challenges Archroma was facing from a security perspective?  We are a relatively young company, and we brought Edgescan on board quite early on, so rather than transitioning from another vulnerability management solution it was more a case of deploying the Edgescan SaaS across our IT infrastructure. We operate in the Operational Technology (OT) space, as well, but currently we have a different approach to securing that side of the business.   When we adopted Edgescan, our focus was to ensure that security was designed into our processes,...

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has revealed the results of its Q2 2021 top-clicked phishing report. There has been a significant rise in phishing email attacks related to HR topics, particularly regarding new policies that would affect all employees throughout organisations. Real phishing emails that were reported to IT departments related to security-minded users about password checks continue to remain popular. One subject area that has...

Outpost24 has acquired Blueliv, one of the world's leading cyber threat intelligence companies which will create one of the largest cybersecurity providers in Europe. The objective: to provide the most advanced threat landscape monitoring solution to help businesses identify threats targeting their organizations and dramatically reduce risk exposure. “It has been a difficult 18 months as many organizations struggled to mitigate the growing number of vulnerabilities and attacks coming from all directions, along with a...

Outpost24 has announced the acquisition of Blueliv, a leading cyber threat intelligence company from Spain. This combination will create one of the largest cybersecurity providers in Europe and provide the most advanced threat landscape monitoring solution. The objective: to help businesses identify threats targeting their organizations and dramatically reduce risk exposure. “It has been a difficult 18 months as many organizations struggled to mitigate the growing number of vulnerabilities and attacks coming from all directions, along with...