Cybersecurity News and updates

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  11 hours ago

  23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users

  TechCrunch - Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

  On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. The company also said that by accessing those accounts, hackers were also able to access “a significant number of files containing profile information …

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  15 hours ago

  ArmorCode raises $40M to consolidate security data in one place

  TechCrunch - Kyle Wiggers

  ArmorCode, a cybersecurity platform that gathers vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure, consolidating the data into a single location and standardizing it for analysis, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by HighlandX with participation from NGP Capital, …

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  3 days ago

  23andMe says hackers accessed ‘significant number’ of files about users’ ancestry

  TechCrunch - Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

  Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach. In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published Friday, the company said that, based on its investigation into the incident, it …

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  3 days ago

  Apple releases security updates for iOS, iPadOS and macOS, fixing two actively exploited zero-days

  TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker

  Apple has released security updates for iPhones, iPads and Macs to patch against two vulnerabilities, which the company says are being actively exploited to hack people. The technology giant rolled out new software updates, iOS and iPadOS 17.1.2, and macOS 14.1.2, following a vulnerability …

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  4 days ago

  Security flaws in court record systems used in five US states exposed sensitive legal documents

  TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker

  Witness lists and testimony, mental health evaluations, detailed allegations of abuse and corporate trade secrets. These are some of the sensitive legal court filings that security researcher Jason Parker said they found exposed to the open internet for anyone to access, and from none other than …

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  4 days ago

  After a week-long outage, Fidelity National Financial confirms cyberattack is now ‘contained’

  TechCrunch - Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

  Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, one of the largest real estate services companies in the United States, said it “contained” a recent cyberattack that engulfed its many subsidiaries and customers in a state of chaos for more than a week. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange …