The White House is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics – Nextgov

Cloud Security , Endpoint Security , Security Operations FireEye Acquisition Opens New Doors for Private Equity Firm Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 5, 2021     Symphony Technology Group’s acquisition on Wednesday of FireEye Products Business in a $1.2 billion deal will set up the private equity group to better compete with security giants such…

You might notice there’s no question mark at the end of the title. That is intentional. In a May 18, 2021 Opinion article in The New York Times by Dr. Sema K. Sgaier, with the title: “Meet Four Kinds of People Holding Us Back from Full Vaccination,” which is available at Opinion | Meet the…

Security researchers document 21 major security vulnerabilities in Exim and warn that users are exposed to remote code execution flaws  Security researchers at Qualys have discovered multiple gaping security holes in Exim, a widely deployed mail server that has been targeted in the past by advanced nation state-based threat actors. An advisory from Qualys documents…

(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. Presidents Biden and Vladimir Putin offered broad claims of good will after their first in-person summit, but it was clear that divisions remain. Putin denied Russian responsibility for a surge in cyberattacks against U.S. institutions and rebuffed U.S….

The threat actor who hacked Poly Network’s cross-chain interoperability protocol yesterday to steal over $600 million worth of cryptocurrency assets is now returning the stolen funds. As the Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network shared two hours ago, the hacker has already returned almost $260 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency. In total, the attacker…

Sen. Maggie Hassan Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have presented a bill that aims to fortify the federal government’s workforce of cyber professionals. The Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act would establish two cyber training programs: one with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the other with the Department of Veterans…