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Industry News: ESG5

    Evolution Equity Partners Raises $1.1 Billion For New Cybersecurity and AI Fund

    2024-04-16

    TechCrunch: Cybersecurity has had a rough go of it lately, with investment in the sector dropping a precipitous 40% compared to the year prior. But there are promising early, even preliminary, signs of a recovery.

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    Cybersecurity Funding Shows Resilience In Q1

    2024-04-16

    Crunchbase: Venture funding overall was still sluggish, but cybersecurity startups saw some love from investors in the first quarter of 2024. To be sure, this is not the salad days of 2021 — cybersecurity funding was still down year to year — but the sector saw its best funding quarter in three quarters.

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    US Supreme Court Ruling Suggests Change In Cybersecurity Disclosure Process

    2024-04-16

    CSO Online: The United States Supreme Court unanimous ruling on an SEC disclosure case on Friday could have direct consequences on how security executives report cybersecurity incidents. 

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    Vote on EU Cybersecurity Label Delayed to May, Sources Say

    2024-04-16

    Yahoo Finance: National cybersecurity experts have shelved a vote on a draft EU cybersecurity label allowing Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft to bid for highly sensitive EU cloud computing contracts to May, people familiar with the matter said.

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    Know Your Breach: PandaBuy

    The Target: The PandaBuy online shopping platform.

    The Take: The data contained approximately 1.5 million unique UserIds, First Name, Last Name, Phone Numbers, Emails, and Login IPs.

    The Vector: "The data was stolen by exploiting several critical vulnerabilities in the platform's API and other bugs were identified allowing access to the internal service of the website," the threat actor said.

    This breach is critical reminder that zero-day exploits do happen, and furthermore that patching software in a timely, effective manner is a key component of ensuring customer data is protected. Ensuring third-party vendors are deploying patches and fixes in accordance with a firm’s cybersecurity policy is an important step in an overall robust security posture.

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    UK's Darktrace Raises Annual Forecasts For Third Time This Year

    2024-04-11

    Yahoo Finance: Darktrace raised its annual revenue and margin forecasts for the third time this year after the British cybersecurity company's third-quarter revenue jumped nearly 27%.

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    Russia Ranked Top of Global Cybercrime Index in New Study

    2024-04-11

    MSN: The World Cybercrime Index has been published in journal Plos One following three years of research by academics from the University of Oxford and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra.

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    National Security Agency Announces Dave Luber As Director of Cybersecurity

    2024-04-10

    Dark Reading: Dave Luber began as the National Security Agency’s (NSA) new Director of Cybersecurity on April 1, 2024. As the new Cybersecurity Director, he oversees NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate (CSD), whose critical mission is to prevent and eradicate cyber threats to the Department of Defense, National Security Systems, and the Defense Industrial Base.

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    Cyber Attacks Risk Triggering Bank Runs, Warns IMF

    2024-04-09

    Yahoo Finance: Cyber attacks are becoming so frequent, malicious and costly that they risk triggering bank runs, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Fund warned that rising cyber threats now posed “serious concerns for financial stability” and could push companies into insolvency.

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    The Secret To Leveraging AI For Cybersecurity

    2024-04-09

    Forbes: Every day, we hear from government and company leaders asking how they can best leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for improved cybersecurity outcomes—and for protection against more sophisticated attacks created by bad actors using AI.

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