Browsing: Cybersecurity

Visa (NYSE:V), the world’s largest electronic-payment processor, rose approximately 1% in Monday’s regular-session trading after agreeing to acquire fraud-intelligence provider BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash. Visa is buying the business from private-equity firm Permira and other investors. The transaction is intended to expand Visa’s cybersecurity, fraud-prevention, risk-management and security services as financial institutions face…

Computer science professor Dr. Kevin Hamlen is on a quest to train students in a combination of high-demand computer-security skills: the mathematical reasoning needed to prove software is secure and the programming expertise needed to uncover real-world vulnerabilities that could lead to cyberattacks.

US cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks faces review in China – Chinadaily.com.cn

Recent developments suggest that AI may be moving faster than cybersecurity can keep up. Separate incidents involving both OpenAI and Anthropic have shown that AI can find and exploit vulnerabilities quicker than companies can patch them. The government’s response has raised further questions about the future of open-weight models and whether companies should retain liability…

BEIJING, Aug 6 (Reuters) – China has launched a cybersecurity review of products sold in the country by U.S. company Palo Alto Networks, citing risks ‌to critical information infrastructure and national security, the country’s cyberspace regulator said on ‌Thursday.

The City of Dallas has appointed James Wilkinson as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), with responsibility for strengthening cyber resilience across municipal systems, public services and departments.

On Wednesday, Meta said that a configuration error by Irregular, an independent company that conducts cybersecurity evaluations for Meta, inadvertently gave one of its AI models access to the open internet during a test.

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities used to surface over weeks. Now they surface in minutes, as attackers move faster than defenders can respond, forcing the industry’s biggest gatherings to rethink how practitioners find trustworthy answers fast. One answer many lean on is cybersecurity peer review — vetting research, startups and threat intelligence before it reaches a stage or…

Reminding everyone that not all of the nation’s water infrastructure will be so readily disrupted by cyberattack, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week announced more than $9 million in grants to improve the cybersecurity of dozens of water systems across the state.

The theft of an estimated $130 million in Bitcoin from Coldcard hardware wallet users is putting cybersecurity back in the spotlight, reinforcing the long-term case for ETFs tracking companies that protect digital infrastructure.