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My Twin Tiers: The New York State Department of Financial Services has announced their partnership with Global Cyber Alliance to help bring a “cybersecurity toolkit” to small businesses in the State. The DFS stated that this partnership is following many small businesses switch to online and remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cision: Trend Micro Incorporated, the leader in cloud security, has identified a new class of cybercrime. Criminals are using cloud services and technology to speed up attacks, which decreases the amount of time enterprises have to identify and respond to a breach.
Plan Sponsor: Plan sponsors might think they can breathe a sigh of relief following a recent decision from U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin for the Northern District of Illinois. The decision dismissed Abbott Laboratories from a lawsuit related to a cybersecurity theft from an employee’s retirement account, ruling that the plan participant failed to prove that Abbott itself is a fiduciary with regard to the alleged failures.
Tech Radar: JM Bullion, which sells gold, silver, copper, platinum and palladium, became the victim of a cyberattack back in February that was not discovered until July. It remains unclear why the hack is only just being disclosed publicly.
CNBC: In an interview on CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” stressed that significant cybersecurity threats remain, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and election season. “Cyber risks have not gone away with the unfortunate, unforeseen risks we’ve faced with Covid and other uncertainties in our economy,” he said. “They’re still there, and they’re there more than ever.”
CBS News: Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking.
GlobeNewswire: Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email security and cyber resilience company, today released new research which highlights the risky behavior of employees using company-issued devices. More than 1,000 respondents in countries throughout the globe were asked about their use of work devices for personal activities and how aware they are of today’s cyber risks. The results highlighted the need for better awareness training, as people are clicking on links or opening suspicious emails despite having been trained.
MSSP Alert: Private equity firm Francisco Partners is acquiring cybersecurity company Forcepoint from defense contractor Raytheon Technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is M&A deal 436 that MSSP Alert and sister site ChannelE2E have covered so far in 2020. See the full M&A deal list here.
TechRepublic: The world's biggest social media companies may have to put more of a priority on security now that a New York state financial watchdog is calling for the creation of a designated regulator tasked with monitoring their cyber defense.
Reuters: The stock opened at $18.60 per share, compared with its IPO price of $20 per share. At the debut price, the company was valued around $8 billion. McAfee priced its IPO towards the lower end of its targeted range between $19 and $22 per share.
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