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    Why Cybersecurity Regulations And Oversight Are As Important As Safety Standards In The Modern Workplace

    2023-01-30

    Forbes: Now is the time for cybersecurity policies to become as ubiquitous and accepted as workplace safety policies. Cybersecurity today is where physical safety was 40 years ago—there are few regulations or standards, and those that exist often feel arbitrarily imposed. Cybersafety is not an expected or regulated part of corporate culture. 

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    Abacus Group Expands PE Cybersecurity Offering

    2023-01-23

    Private Equity Wire: Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT services and solutions to alternative investment firms, has acquired two boutique cybersecurity consulting companies, Gotham Security and its parent company, GoVanguard, which will now be known as Gotham Security, and will operate as an independent subsidiary of Abacus Group. 

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    Cole-Frieman & Mallon Launches First Cybersecurity Law Practice for Asset Managers With Eye to SEC’s Proposed Rules

    2023-01-18

    BusinessWire: With the Securities & Exchange Commission proposing tighter cybersecurity requirements for hedge funds and other asset managers, Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP, one of the nation’s leading boutique law firms serving the investment management industry, has launched a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity law practice.

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    Carlyle Leads $55m Series B Round in Cybersecurity Platform

    2023-01-11

    Private Equity Wire: Global investment firm Carlyle has led a $55m Series B investment round in Hack The Box, a cybersecurity upskilling and talent assessment platform, with a global community of more than 1.7 million members and a portfolio of more than 1,500 enterprise, government and university customers. 

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    Mendicino Open to Working with MPs to ‘Improve’ Much-Criticized Cybersecurity Bill

    2023-01-10

    Toronto Star: The federal public safety minister says he is prepared to work with other parliamentarians to revise the Liberal government’s cybersecurity bill after civil society groups and opposition MPs raised transparency and accountability concerns.

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    Attackers Are Already Exploiting ChatGPT to Write Malicious Code

    2023-01-09

    Dark Reading: Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, many security experts have predicted it would only be a matter of time before cybercriminals began using the AI chatbot for writing malware and enabling other nefarious activities. Just weeks later, it looks like that time is already here.

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    Iowa’s Largest City Cancels Classes Due to Cyber Attack

    2023-01-09

    The Star: Des Moines Public Schools announced that classes would be cancelled for its 33,000 students after being “alerted to a cyber security incident on its technology network.“

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    Twitter Whistleblower ‘Mudge’ Joins Cybersecurity Firm Rapid7

    2023-01-04

    BNN Bloomberg: Peiter Zatko, the prominent computer security expert who blew the whistle last year on alleged security problems at Twitter Inc., is joining the cybersecurity firm Rapid7 Inc., the company said.

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    Rackspace Confirms Play Ransomware Was Behind Recent Cyberattack

    2023-01-04

    Bleeping Computer: Texas-based cloud computing provider Rackspace has confirmed that the Play ransomware operation was behind a recent cyberattack that took down the company's hosted Microsoft Exchange environments.

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    Sectigo Hires Kevin Weiss As CEO

    2022-12-20

    Help Net Security: Kevin Weiss brings over 25 years of strategy and leadership experience in the technology space and joins Sectigo from Spireon, where he served as CEO for more than six years.

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