UBER TO PAY $148 MILLION FOR FAILING TO REPORT 2016 HACK

Uber has reached a settlement with all 50 US states and the District of Columbia over a 2016 data breach the ride-hailing service failed to disclose. The company will pay a $148 million fine that will be distributed in varying amounts across all states, attorneys general said Wednesday. Uber will also be required to adopt several new data security practices. "Uber's decision to cover up this breach was a blatant violation of the public's trust," Attorney General Becerra said in...
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INFOSECNA18: NSA WEIGHS IN ON SOC DEFENSE

In his opening keynote presentation kicking off the second day of this year’s Infosecurity North America conference in New York, the technical director of cybersecurity threat operations center for the NSA, Dave Hogue, talked about how innovations in policy, technology, and people can lead to break-through results in one of the largest 24-7-365 operational environments across the US government. Hogue said the threat operation center is equivalent to security operation centers in industry, ...
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SENDGRID HACKED: BEWARE MASS EMAIL PHISHES

Mass email provider SendGrid is warning users that an attacker was able to compromise an employee’s account to access several of its internal systems, including servers that contained customers’ recipient email lists/addresses and customer contact information....
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GAZA AND CRIMEA CONFLICTS COULD HAVE BEEN PREDICTED BY MONITORING CYBER ATTACKS

A surge in cyber attacks preceeded both the conflict in Ukraine and in Gaza, new research has found - leading to suggestions that the technique could be used to predict future fighting...
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BIND UPDATES PATCH THREE VULNERABILITIES

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced this week that updates released for the DNS software BIND patch several denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely....
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CYBERSECURITY INVESTING IN ISRAEL BY THE NUMBERS

With the cybersecurity market growing to a gigantic size, it is well established that Israel is a hotbed of innovation and startups in the space. The end of then year is a good time for summaries and wrapping things up, so I took a look at statistics as gleaned from the database of IVC to put some quantitative observations behind this major wave.The theory behind the rise of Israel as a cybersecurity super-power is straightforward: Israel has long-established expertise in the space, given the ma...
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