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    CrowdStrike Outlook Appears 'Absolutely Solid' Despite Outage

    2024-08-27

    Yahoo Finance: Cybersecurity stocks are in focus this week, with SentinelOne (S) and CrowdStrike (CRWD) earnings giving investors a fresh read on the sector. TD Cowen senior analyst Shaul Eyal joins Market Domination to discuss the state of the cybersecurity industry and some of its key players.

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    Custodians Looking to Beat Offenders in Gen AI Cybersecurity Battle

    2024-08-21

    CSO Online: Generative AI enabled threats, such as highly convincing phishing emails and morphed digital identities, which accurately mimic human communication, are evolving in real time, surpassing existing security measures and posing challenges to legacy defenses.

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    SEC Charges Transfer Agent Equiniti Trust Co. with Failing to Protect Client Funds Against Cyber Intrusions

    2024-08-20

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): The Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges against New York-based registered transfer agent Equiniti Trust Company LLC, formerly known as American Stock Transfer & Trust Company LLC, for failing to assure that client securities and funds were protected against theft or misuse.

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    47% of US Firms Suffered Data Breach Resulting in Severe Financial Loss

    2024-08-20

    CFO Dive: AT&TTicketmaster owner Live Nation Entertainment and UnitedHealth Group are among companies that have reported massive data breaches since January.

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    Hackers May Have Stolen The Social Security Numbers of all Americans. Here's What to Know.

    2024-08-15

    CBS News: A new lawsuit is claiming hackers have gained access to the personal information of "billions of individuals," including their Social Security numbers, current and past addresses and the names of siblings and parents — personal data that could allow fraudsters to infiltrate financial accounts or take out loans in their names. 

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    M&A Activity Can Amplify Ransomware Insurance Losses, Research Finds

    2024-08-14

    Cybersecurity Dive: Global M&A deal volume increased 36% in the first quarter of the year, according to an Ernst & Young analysis. While such growth can be seen as a sign of positive economic development, it can also create new entry points for cyber threat actors, Resilience said in its report.

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    Kiteworks Captures $456 Million at a $1 Billion+ Valuation to Help Secure Sensitive Data

    2024-08-14

    TechCrunch: Mark up another unicorn and large funding round for the cybersecurity industry: Kiteworks, which builds tools to secure email communications, file sharing and situations where people work with sensitive data, has raised $456 million from Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth. The investment values the company at over $1 billion.

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    Warburg Pincus-Backed Cybersecurity Firm eSentire Explores Sale, Sources Say

    2024-08-13

    Yahoo Finance: The owners of eSentire are exploring options including a potential sale that could value the cybersecurity company at about $1 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

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    Know Your Breach: HealthEquity

    The Target: HealthEquity, a Utah-based health savings account (HSA) provider.

    The Take: The stolen information included a mix of benefits sign-up information that varied by customer. That mix could include name, address, phone number, employee ID, employer, Social Security number, and dependent information.

    The Vector: The company said in a notice that a hacker managed to breach an "an unstructured data repository outside our core systems" containing customer data, making off with various kinds of personally identifiable information.

    This breach highlights the extreme importance of timely software updates for known software vulnerabilities, not only in systems directly under a firm’s control, but in third-party systems the firm relies upon as well. The longer a firm, or its vendors, hold out on deploying the most up-to-date software for their systems, the greater the chance an attacker will exploit the issue.

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    Cybersecurity Company Tenable Reportedly Exploring Potential Sale

    2024-07-31

    Yahoo Finance: American cybersecurity company Tenable Holdings is exploring various strategic options, including a potential sale, following expressions of interest from potential buyers, reports Bloomberg.

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