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Huntress acquires security awareness training platform Curricula for $22 million

Huntress, the managed security platform for SMBs, has acquired Curricula, a story-based security awareness training platform that empowers employees to better defend themselves against hackers. In addition to its core platform, Curricula offers a number of additional features to help businesses build a positively focused security culture – including a gamified phishing simulator, story-based training episodes, custom content creation tools, compliance reporting, and more. In this Help Net Security video, Marcos Torres, Huntress’ CFO, talks … More → The post Huntress acquires security awareness training platform Curricula for $22 million appeared first on Help Net Security.
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=8094, (Wed, Jul 20th)

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Push Security raises $4 million to introduce user-centric approach to securing SaaS

Push Security announced it completed a $4 million seed round led by Decibel and backed by prominent industry leaders, including Jon Oberheide, co-founder of Duo Security, and Haroon Meer, CEO and founder of Thinkst. With this funding, Push will continue to develop technology that guides employees to make smart decisions while they are using company SaaS platforms, enlisting their help to improve security. In a cloud-first world, employees are moving fast and adopting SaaS platforms … More → The post Push Security raises $4 million to introduce user-centric approach to securing SaaS appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Go with the flow: New findings about moving electricity could improve fusion devices

Researchers have found that updating a mathematical model to include a physical property known as resistivity could lead to the improved design of doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks.
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Contractors sat up and listened to an astonishing speech from a military acquisition leader

A high ranking military official recently cited acquisition and the Defense supply chain in predicting mathematical certainty of the US losing out to China. That made contractors sit up and listen.
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10 industry-defining security incidents from the last decade

The last decade has seen its fair share of watershed moments that have had major implications on the cybersecurity landscape. Severe vulnerabilities, mass exploitations, and widespread cyberattacks have reshaped many aspects of modern security. To take stock of the past 10 years, cybersecurity vendor Trustwave has published the Decade Retrospective: The State of Vulnerabilities blog post featuring a list of what it considers to be the 10 most prominent and notable network security issues and breaches of the last 10 years. “It is difficult to tell the complete story about the network security landscape from the past decade because security tools and event loggers have evolved so much recently that many of the metrics that we take for granted today simply did not exist 10 years back,” the blog read. “Nevertheless, the data that is available provides enough information to spot some significant trends. The most obvious trend, based on sources like the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), Exploit-DB, VulnIQ, and Trustwave’s own security data, is that security incidents and individual vulnerabilities have been increasing in number and becoming more sophisticated,” it added. To read this article in full, please click here
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=8092, (Tue, Jul 19th)

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Ran Dubin joins BUFFERZONE as CTO

BUFFERZONE has appointed Dr. Ran Dubin as the company’s CTO as part of the company’s efforts to add another layer to its Safe Workspace solution by combining phishing and fraud protection with endpoint containment and isolation. Prior to joining BUFFERZONE, Dr. Dubin was the cofounder and CEO of SNDBOX, which was acquired by OPSWAT. Dr. Dubin is a cyber and artificial intelligence (AI) veteran, with over 20 years of experience in AI, zero-trust attack prevention, … More → The post Ran Dubin joins BUFFERZONE as CTO appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Long-term implications of AFGE’s ‘difficult decision’ to disclaim ICE officers’ union chapter

AFGE has begun the process to separate its union chapter for ICE officers, essentially dissolving the council’s collective bargaining agreement.
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Fake GitHub commits can trick developers into using malicious code

Threat actors can easily alter the identity and timestamp associated with software updates, putting developers at serious risk, Checkmarx research shows.
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