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McAfee’s Consumer Business to Be Acquired by Private Equity Groups
The McAfee consumer security business, which trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol MCFE, will be going private in a deal valued at more than $14 billion. McAfee had sold…
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IBM Moves Into EDR Market With ReaQta Acquisition
IBM is moving into the endpoint detection and response (EDR) market with the acquisition of ReaQta. IBM is positioning the announcement as part of its launch of an XDR product.…
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CrowdStrike vs Symantec: Top EDR Solutions Compared
Buyers looking for an endpoint security solution often compare CrowdStrike and Symantec, and while both vendors made our top endpoint detection and response (EDR) product list, they’re very different security…
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McAfee-FireEye Merger Makes STG’s Plans Clearer
Private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) has been on a cybersecurity buying spree the last two years, acquiring RSA Security, McAfee’s enterprise business and Mandiant’s FireEye products business (see…
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Microsoft Makes Exchange Server Patches Less Optional
Microsoft Exchange is a frequent target of hackers, and often the attack vector is a well known vulnerability that a company just hasn’t gotten around to patching. To try to…
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Palo Alto Enters Small Business, Remote and Home Markets with Okyo
Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is bringing its enterprise-class security to small business and home markets with Okyo, a Wi-Fi 6 hardware device announced today. At $349 a year, the security…
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Hackers Leak 87,000 Fortinet VPN Passwords
In the latest lesson about the importance of patching, the credentials for 87,000 Fortinet FortiGate VPNs have been posted on a dark web forum by hackers. Fortinet confirmed the veracity…
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Open Source Security: A Big Problem
Open source security has been a big focus of this week’s Black Hat conference, but no open source security initiative is bolder than the one proffered by the Open Source…
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FBI, CISA Reveal Most Exploited Vulnerabilities
The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined counterparts in the UK and Australia today to announce the top 30 vulnerabilities exploited since the start of…
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Startup Sees File System as Key to Security
While many cybersecurity vendors approach zero trust from the perspective of microsegmentation, shrinking the network as much as possible, one startup thinks security needs to be as close to the…
