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      Wipro to Acquire Edgile to Strengthen its Leadership in Strategic Cybersecurity Services

      2021-12-20

      Yahoo Finance: Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Austin, Texas headquartered Edgile, a transformational cybersecurity consulting provider that focuses on risk and compliance, information and cloud security, and digital identity.

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      Cybersecurity Firm ZeroFox to Go Public Via $1.4 Bln Blank-check Deal

      2021-12-20

      Financial Post: Cybersecurity company ZeroFox said it will buy digital privacy protection platform IDX and go public through a merger with blank-check firm L&F Acquisition Corp, in a deal that values the combined entity at $1.4 billion.

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      SEC Charges Five Russians in $80 Million Hacking and Trading Scheme

      2021-12-20

      SEC: The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against five Russian nationals for engaging in a multi-year scheme to profit from stolen corporate earnings announcements obtained by hacking into the systems of two U.S.-based filing agent companies before the announcements were made public.

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      Cybersecurity Company Identifies mMonths-long Attack On US federal Commission

      2021-12-20

      ZDNet: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has been hit with a cyberattack, according to cybersecurity firm Avast

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      Trudeau Tasks Cabinet with New Cybersecurity Plan Amid Growing Attacks, Spying

      2021-12-16

      Global News: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tasked a committee of senior cabinet ministers to develop a new national cybersecurity plan amid increasingly public warnings from the country’s intelligence community about online threats.

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      FINRA, FCA Warn Firms of Cybersecurity Threat

      2021-12-15

      Advisor's Edge: egulators in the U.S. and U.K. are warning the financial industry about a cybersecurity vulnerability that has been uncovered with open-source software widely used in enterprise applications and cloud services.

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      Ransomware Hits HR Solutions Provider Kronos, Locking Customers Out of Vital Services

      2021-12-14

      Help Net Security: The end of the year chaos caused by the revelation of the Log4Shell vulnerability has, for some organizations, been augmented by a ransomware attack on Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), one of the biggest HR and workforce management solutions providers in the US.

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      Cybersecurity Startup Guardio, Now with 1M Users of Its Browser Extension, Raises Its First Funding: $47M Led by Tiger Global

      2021-12-14

      Yahoo Finance: Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud. Today a startup that has built what it believes comes next is making some news with a large funding round, its first outside money.

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      New Cyber Vulnerability Poses 'Severe Risk,' DHS Says

      2021-12-12

      ABC News: The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an urgent statement about a new cyber vulnerability that could touch a wide swath of the internet.

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      Hummingbird Lands $30M to Bring Design Thinking to Anti-money Laundering Investigations

      2021-12-07

      Yahoo News: Hummingbird, which sells anti-money laundering software to banks and fintechs, announced today that it raised a $30 million Series B led by new investor Battery Ventures. Existing investors Flourish and Homebrew also participated in the round, alongside FinVC and Plaid co-founder William Hockey.

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