Sean Michael Kerner

Multiple firms have reported that their customers were put at risk due to a breach from third-party services vendors [24]7.ai, which provides a chat widget used by the impacted sites. Among the companies that have publicly reported that their customers may be have been impacted by the breach are Best Buy, Delta Airlines and Sears […]

RSA, a Dell Technologies business, announced on April 5 that it is acquiring user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) security startup Fortscale. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. News of the acquisition of Fortscale, which has raised $23 million in venture funding since it was founded in 2014, comes the same […]

SWIM AI emerged from stealth mode on April 4, bringing with it a new approach to enable machine learning and data insights without the need for big data processing in the cloud. SWIM, which stands for Software In Motion, also announced that Simon Crosby has joined the company as CTO. Crosby was a co-founder and […]

Fedora 28 Set to Deliver New GNOME Linux Desktop for Workstations The beta release of the Fedora 28 Linux distribution became available on April 3, providing users with a preview of new capabilities that will become generally available in May. Fedora is a community Linux distribution that is sponsored by Red Hat and is available […]

IBM Security announced its 2018 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index on April 4, revealing that the number of breached records in 2017 was actually less than what was reported for 2016. According to IBM’s analysis, 2.9 billion records were breached in 2017, down 25 percent from the 4 billion stolen customer data records in 2016. The […]

Restaurant chain Panera Bread is leaking customer information, according to a report released on April 2. Security researcher Dylan Houlihan claims he contacted Panera Breach in August 2017 about the issue, but the company did not fix it. In a post on Medium, Houlihan said he discovered an issue in the Panera Bread website that […]

Cloudflare is the latest vendor to offer consumers a freely available Domain Name Service that aims to help accelerate and secure internet traffic. On April 1, Cloudflare announced the debut of its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in partnership with APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) Labs. With the 1.1.1.1 service, Cloudflare is providing a public DNS […]

A large retail data breach at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores was reported on April 1, and the impact is no joke. More than 5 million payment cards were allegedly stolen in the data breach, according to security firm Gemini Advisory, which first publicly reported the incident. Gemini Advisory became aware of the […]

Multiple research reports released the week of March 26-30, reveal prevailing trends in the cyber-security attack landscape. In the aggregate, the reports provide a snapshot of some to the top concerns facing enterprise IT today, including cryptocurrency mining, ransomware and IoT threats. Among the reports, the Shared Assessments Program and the Ponemon Institute released a […]

Apple released a set of security and features updates for its mobile iOS and desktop macOS operating systems on March 29, as well as introduced a new privacy notification icon. iOS 11.3  and macOS 10.13.4 follow Apple’s iOS 11.2.6 and  macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 supplemental updates that were released on Feb. 20 primarily to deal […]

10 Tech Startups Raise VC Funding to Advance Cyber-Security Efforts Venture capitalists continue to invest in cyber-security startups, funding at least 10 companies in March 2018. The largest amount raised during the month was a $53 million round of funding that went to fraud prevention vendor Sift Science. Netsparker, meanwhile, raised $40 million in new […]

Fitness vendor Under Armour reported a massive data breach on March 29, impacting 150 million users accounts. The data breach specifically involves users of Under Armour’s popular MyFitnessPal application, which provides exercise, diet and calorie counting capabilities. The company detected the breach four days ago and is now reaching out to users to inform them […]