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AJC: A former executive at Atlanta-based Equifax has pleaded guilty to insider trading in the wake of the company’s massive data breach in 2017. Jun Ying, 43, former chief information officer of an Equifax division known as U.S. Information Solutions, sold more than $950,000 in stock in the weeks after the company discovered the breach but before the incident was made public...
Fortune: Cybersecurity startup KnowBe4 has secured a minority investment from private equity giant KKR that values the firm at more than $800 million. KKR is making an initial commitment of up to $50 million in KnowBe4, according to sources with knowledge of the transaction, with plans for an additional investment in the company already in the works...
Time: Hackers linked to North Korea continued waging cyberattacks against U.S. companies and other targets while leaders from Washington and Pyongyang met for their second summit last week, the New York Times reports. Throughout the ongoing, 18-month operation, hackers from Lazarus group have persistently targeted key industries...
HarvardBusinessReview: Another year and another hack and what seems like a very long wait to learn that it happened. Recently, Marriott waited 11 weeks to reveal that 383 million customer records had been compromised, exposing at least 25 million passport numbers and 8 million payment cards. Can you imagine a company like Marriott waiting for 11 weeks to disclose its quarterly earnings numbers? That wouldn’t be acceptable...
PRNewswire: It was announced that Ionic Security Inc. closed a $40 million Series E round led by financial services leader JPMorgan Chase & Co., with participation by Google LLC as a new investor. Current venture investors Kleiner Perkins, GV, Icon Ventures, Meritech Capital, TechOperators and Ten Eleven Ventures participated, alongside other new and existing investors. JPMorgan joins Goldman Sachs and SunTrust Bank as the third major financial services firm to invest in Ionic Security...
Thescottishsun: TESCO customers are being warned about a new scam that could let fraudsters take control of your account. The supermarket said a number of its shoppers had received a phishing email about a grocery order they hadn't placed online. More than 400,000 phishing emails are reported to Action Fraud every year - and those are just the ones flagged by victims...
Insidesources: Cyber attacks on hospitals and healthcare providers have become a regular occurrence. On Feb. 1, it was Easton Hospital in Easton, Pennsylvania. On Feb. 4, it was the Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, North Carolina. On Feb. 20, it was the Calbrini Hospital in Melbourne, Australia...
CNN: California officials proposed legislation that, if passed, would set stricter guidelines for when companies need to inform customers of a data breach. The bill would require companies to notify California residents when their passport, passport card or green card numbers are compromised in data breaches. It would also require customers be notified of compromised biometric information such as fingerprints...
PrivateEquityWire: Senseon, an AI platform for cyber defence, has completed a USD6.4 million seed funding round led by venture capital fund MMC Ventures, alongside Mark Weatherford, former Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, US Department of Homeland Security. Additional investors include Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane Venture Partners and CyLon. The funding will allow Senseon to continue its rapid expansion in the UK and increase its presence in EMEA and the US...
BBC: Mr Bezos is the world's richest man, building his fortune via a company that is transforming the way we live with innovative technology. His business, Amazon, has cyber-security at the heart of everything it does. So how come he risked sending highly embarrassing photos to his lover's phone only to see them hacked and end up in the hands of a tabloid newspaper?...
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