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Cisco has agreed to pay $8.6m to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of a whistleblower client who claims the software giant knowingly sold video surveillance systems to US federal and state agencies that could have been easily hacked because of critical software flaws. Attorney and partner at Phillips &

Respond software, a cybsersecurity platform that automates decision-making through emulating human reasoning, has raised $20 million in a series B round of funding led by ClearSky Security, with participation from CRV and Foundation Capital. Founded out of Mountain View, California, in 2016, Respond Software touts its robotic

Although blockchain-native software is in its infancy, the technology is racing ahead to meet more and more use cases. But the community doesn’t seem to have taken software security principles seriously, as we can see from the recent scan of Ethereum smart contracts that identified 34,200 vulnerable

HIGHLIGHTS Ezequiel Pereira’s sporadic poking around has finally paid off Vulnerability would have allowed him to make changes to internal systems I’m glad that I found something that was so important: Pereira Google has awarded an Uruguayan teenager a “bug bounty” of more than $36,000 (roughly Rs. 24.3

The State government has enhanced security measures in prisons by deploying a slew of advanced equipment to further strengthen the existing arrangements, Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons C.Ve. Shanmugam said on Thursday. Security-related gadgets such as scanners, cell phone jammers and closed circuit television cameras, besides

Rapid7 has gone public with news of an e-commerce SQL injection vulnerability, saying it couldn’t raise a response from the vendor. The software in question, SmartVista, is an e-commerce and financial product from BPC Banking, and in this post, Rapid7 says it told the company about the issue

HIGHLIGHTS There have been worries about how much to trust Face ID The company’s first public demo of Face ID didn’t go that smoothly The information collected by Face ID won’t leave your device Apple released more details about the iPhone X’s Face ID feature when it published a new

THE WARNINGS CONSUMERS hear from information security pros tend to focus on trust: Don’t click web links or attachments from an untrusted sender. Only install applications from a trusted source or from a trusted app store. But lately, devious hackers have been targeting their attacks further up the software supply chain,

On Monday, VMware will launch a new product to protect its core software from cyber threats. Bullet-proofing corporate data from cybersecurity threats has become top priority for Fortune 500 companies in the wake of Wannacry ransomware and other attacks of the past year. The goal of the new AppDefense software,

Xiaomi has countered reports of major security leaks in its flagship OS MIUI after internet security service provider eScan reportedly found critical flaws in system apps. What are the flaws? The first flaw pertains to Mi-Mover, an in-built app used to transfer files, apps and settings from an