“One of the biggest vulnerabilities in companies is actually humans,” Crowdstrike co-founder and former CTO Dmitri Alperovitch told TechCrunch in this week’s episode of Equity. “The more you automate, the more opportunities there are for…
The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called “pig butchering” crypto scams that have led to $200 million in losses for Americans victims. On Thursday, the…
The Trump administration has fired Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, several news publications reported overnight into Friday. Haugh, a career military official, led the National Security Agency, the…
Former top U.S. cybersecurity official Rob Joyce told lawmakers on Wednesday that cuts to federal probationary employees will have a “devastating impact” on U.S. national security. Joyce, who was the director of cybersecurity for the…
The United States has suspended its offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to reports, amid efforts by the Trump administration to grant Moscow concessions to end the war in Ukraine. The reported order to halt…
The U.S. government announced Tuesday that its long-awaited cybersecurity labeling program for consumer internet-connected devices will launch in 2025. The Biden administration first introduced the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark in June 2023, saying the voluntary…
The U.S. government has sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company over its alleged links to a China government-backed hacking group, tracked as Flax Typhoon. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced…
In recent years, the focus of crime has shifted. The increased security of our computers has made it harder to spread computer viruses and the absence of cash makes traditional robberies rare. Instead, a criminal’s…
Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry’s beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant discount from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid to acquire the startup in 2018. Under the terms of the deal, which…
Whew, there were some fantastic deals to be had on OLED gaming monitors across Black Friday and Cyber Monday. While most of them have expired by now, I managed to spot one last deal for…