Last year is widely regarded as a milestone period for data breached, and not in a good way. Just how bad was it? Pretty bad. A new study finds the year suffered the highest number of data breaches on record, breaking the previous record set in 2013. The study from Risk Based Security Inc. found that in ...

Distributed denial of service protection firm Radware Ltd. has acquired cloud-based security firm Seculert for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012, Seculert offers a software-as-a-service security platform that aims to fill gaps left by legacy perimeter defense and breach detection systems. It claims to protect enterprises from advanced threats by focusing on malicious outbound network traffic. The company’s ...

Employee protection solutions and cyber intelligence startup InfoArmor Inc., has taken an undisclosed amount of new funding from Boston-based growth equity investment firm Summit Partners. Along with the new funding, InfoArmor announced changes to its executive team. Current President and Chief Financial Officer John Schreiber will become chief executive officer, taking over from founder Drew Smith, who ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has signed a deal with German automaker Daimler AG that will see Mercede-Benz vehicles joining Uber’s self-driving car fleet. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Nor was a timeline, only a commitment that the vehicle would be joining Uber “in the coming years.” According to The New York Times, the deal is ...

Security firm Exabeam Inc. has launched a new Security Intelligence Platform that is designed to lower the risk of cyberthreats in enterprise environments at a more affordable price than other solutions in the market. Exabeam’s new platform aims to enable the collection of more data than existing platforms by making better connections across data to ...

A former Federal Reserve employee has been fined $5,000 and placed on 12 months’ probation for mining bitcoin from a server at the central bank. Nicholas Berthaume, who previously worked as a communications analyst for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, was alleged to have “installed unauthorized software on a Board server to connect to ...

A new study has found that printers commonly used in enterprise environments are a security risk that can be exploited to leak information and execute code. The study, Exploiting Printer Security from Ruhr-Universität Bochum researcher Jens Müller, analyzed 20 printers and multi-function printers to find that every single printer tested had at least one exploitable security vulnerability. Testing of the ...

A group of visitors to a luxury hotel in Austria found themselves locked out of their rooms following a targeted ransomware attack that disabled the resort’s central key management system. The attack that targeted the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt hotel, leaving guests unable to get into their rooms, also infiltrated the hotel’s reservation and cash desk systems. Those behind the attack ...

Facebook Inc. has officially closed its Parse mobile development platform some 12 months after announcing that it intended to do so. Parse, which was used by developers to build mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows and other platforms, was acquired by Facebook for $85 million in 2013. At the time of the acquisition, Facebook pitched the buy as being ...

The hacker behind the infamous “celebgate/fappening” hacking scandal in 2014 that resulted in erotic images of celebrities appearing online has been sentenced to nine months in prison. Edward Majerczyk, 28, of Chicago, had previously pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a private account to obtain information as part of a plea deal agreed ...