It has been reported that French shipbuilding firm, DCNS, has suffered a huge data breach. The information exposed was 22,000 pages of detailed information revealing the combat capabilities of the Scorpene class vessels – six of which are used in a £2.6 billion contract with the Indian navy.
LONDON, UK: Alert Logic has announced that the company has made three new executive hires that will be instrumental in helping to facilitate its continued global growth. Alert Logic hired Houston-based John Karnes as the new Chief Financial Officer, John Carse as the new Vice President of Security Operations and Bob Layton as Vice President of Global Channels.
A new ransomware sample poses as a version of Pokémon Go for Windows. These features include a backdoor Windows account, spreading the executable to other drives, and creating network shares. IT security experts from Lieberman Software, ESET and Tripwire discuss the ransomware:
New York, NY: The Counter Extremism Project released the following statement in response to Twitter’s claim that the social media company has suspended 235,000 accounts since February 2016 for violating policies related to promotion of terrorism:
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