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      Fraudsters Clone FCA Register and Website

      2020-07-22

      Financial Times: Fraudsters have cloned the Financial Conduct Authority's website, including a page which encourages firms to register for online invoicing and pay annual fees. 

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      Twitter Blames 'Coordinated' Attack on Its Systems for Hack of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Others

      2020-07-16

      CNN Business: Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday in what Twitter said it believes to be an attack on some of its employees with access to the company's internal tools.

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      2020: The Year of Increased Attack Sophistication

      2020-07-15

      Help Net Security: There was an increase in both cyberattack volume and breaches during the past 12 months in the U.S. This has prompted increased investment in cyber defense, with U.S. businesses already using an average of more than nine different cybersecurity tools, a VMware survey found.

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      Advent Acquisition Of Forescout Back On, Price Cut By $4 Per Share

      2020-07-15

      CRN: Advent International and Forescout have called off their dueling lawsuits and agreed to move forward with an acquisition for $4 per share less than the deal initially proposed in February.

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      Microsoft Shuts Down CEO Fraud Scheme

      2020-07-14

      ACS: Microsoft has taken legal action to bring down a sophisticated cyber fraud scheme that targeted CEOs in more than 60 countries around the world.

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      Hacker Breaches Security Firm in Act of Revenge

      2020-07-13

      ZDNet: A hacker claims to have breached the backend servers belonging to a US cyber-security firm and stolen information from the company's "data leak detection" service.

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      Thoma Bravo Completes Exostar Acquisition

      2020-07-08

      DarkReading: Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Exostar, LLC, a leader in trusted, secure business collaboration.

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      Microsoft Takes Down Domains Used in COVID-19-Related Cybercrime

      2020-07-07

      Bleeping Computer: Microsoft took control of domains used by cybercriminals as part of the infrastructure needed to launch phishing attacks designed to exploit vulnerabilities and public fear resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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      Did a Chinese Hack Kill Canada's Greatest Tech Company?

      2020-07-01

      BNN Bloomberg: The documents began arriving in China at 8:48 a.m. on a Saturday in April 2004. There were close to 800 of them: PowerPoint presentations from customer meetings, an analysis of a recent sales loss, design details for an American communications network. Others were technical, including source code that represented some of the most sensitive information owned by Nortel Networks Corp., then one of the world’s largest companies.

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      The University of California Pays $1 Million Ransom Following Cyber Attack

      2020-06-29

      Forbes: The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has confirmed it paid a ransom totaling $1.14 million (£925,000) to the criminals behind a cyber-attack on its School of Medicine.

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