Bain and Crosspoint Capital acquire ExtraHop in $900M deal

Bain and Crosspoint Capital acquire ExtraHop in $900M deal

Bain and Crosspoint Capital acquire ExtraHop in $900M deal | IT Security News 8. June 2021 This article has been indexed from Security – VentureBeat Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners have agreed to acquire cybersecurity firm ExtraHop in a deal worth $900 million. Like this: Like Loading… Related Tags: Security – VentureBeat…

Microsoft Patches 6 Vulnerabilities Currently Under Attack

Microsoft Patches 6 Vulnerabilities Currently Under Attack

Application Security , Governance & Risk Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development None Are Rated Critical, But Analysts Say Patching Each Is Important Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 9, 2021     Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday contained patches for six zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, including two flaws detected by Kaspersky that…

Intel® SPS Advisory

Intel® SPS Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS) may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2021-0051 Description: Improper input validation in the Intel(R) SPS versions before SPS_E5_04.

Colonial CEO at Senate Hearing Details Ransomware Attack

Colonial CEO at Senate Hearing Details Ransomware Attack

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company’s IT Team Was Unaware the VPN Exploited to Gain Entry Existed Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 8, 2021     Colonial Pipeline Co. CEO Joseph Blount testifying on Tuesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Colonial Pipeline Co. CEO Joseph Blount defended his…

Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster • The Register

Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster • The Register

A reverse engineer has discovered what is claimed to be “the first known malware targeting Windows containers to compromise cloud environments,” a sentence to put any system administrator on edge. Building on work published in December of last year on reverse-engineering Windows containers, security researcher Daniel Prizmant’s latest discovery – made during his day job…

CISA Expanding Mandatory Vulnerability Disclosure Program

CISA Expanding Mandatory Vulnerability Disclosure Program

Application Security , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime Security Agency Will Use Bugcrowd, EnDyna for Platform Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 8, 2021     The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is preparing to expand its vulnerability research and disclosure program, which is now mandatory for nearly all executive branch agencies within the federal…