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The official Twitter account for WSJ Pro's team of editors and reporters covering all things cybersecurity.
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Joined November 2016
Closer collaboration between major telecommunications operators has resulted in a two-day challenge between their staff this week in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/0RC7cfEdGq
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Executives from the major providers now meet regularly to swap information on hacking attempts. ‘…We came to the conclusion that we’re only going to be as strong as each other,’ says one.
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Venture capital has been coursing into AI-pumped cybersecurity outfits. Sublime Security, which uses AI agents to spot malicious emails, just raised a $150 million Series C https://t.co/DA32YhUbFj
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The funding—Sublime’s second in less than a year—comes as generative AI is igniting fresh development in an email-protection arena grown stagnant.
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Telecommunications companies are adopting best practices from the financial sector for collective cyber defense, driven largely by a group of ex-finance executives https://t.co/0RC7cfELvY
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Executives from the major providers now meet regularly to swap information on hacking attempts. ‘…We came to the conclusion that we’re only going to be as strong as each other,’ says one.
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Cybersecurity company Armis has raised $435 million in funding as it prepares for an initial public offering https://t.co/mzeellDUen
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Israeli startup raises $435 million for future acquisitions.
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Homeland Security is expanding facial-recognition screening for foreign travelers. The data, which will be saved for 75 years, is a hacker target, cybersecurity experts say. https://t.co/Ts0uV7WttL
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The DHS’s plan to store photos on all non-U. S. citizens entering and leaving the country for 75 years creates a rich target for hackers, cyber experts warn.
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Sublime Security, which uses AI to protect email, raised $150 million in venture capital, less than a year after its previous funding https://t.co/DA32YhTDPL
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The funding—Sublime’s second in less than a year—comes as generative AI is igniting fresh development in an email-protection arena grown stagnant.
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Cyber pros say five years of genetic-monitoring services offered to 23andMe users whose DNA data was exposed in a 2023 cyberattack isn't nearly enough https://t.co/EaptoYeXfN
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A trove of the bankrupt company’s DNA profiles on millions of users is up for sale on the darknet.
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The cyberattack on carmaker Jaguar Land Rover in August shows how destructive a hack can be, not only for the target but also its clients, supply-chain partners and workers https://t.co/ILvYegCTXh
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Fallout from cyber strike at U.K. carmaker Jaguar Land Rover hurts suppliers, dealers and workers.
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U.S. officials say a nation-state cyberattack compromised F5 security software. Government agencies have one week to patch products.
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Top federal cyber unit gives agencies one week to identify and patch software compromised in a serious nation-state hack.
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Hackers claimed to leak a database of information on more than 5 million Qantas Airways customers this weekend. It’s the latest in a string of incidents this year involving compromised Salesforce accounts. https://t.co/LFpkIaVoP5
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Hackers post details of Australian airline’s customers, saying they have breached more companies.
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A steady drawdown of cybersecurity resources since Trump took office is putting the U.S. at risk of falling behind China and other adversaries on the digital battlefield https://t.co/JpCTrYn80a
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Months of layoffs, funding cuts and lapsed programs leave U.S. cybersecurity capabilities dangerously thin, experts say. The government shutdown isn’t helping.
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Security chiefs are assuming an expanded role in companies as they rush to implement artificial intelligence, focusing on the risks associated with the technology across various business units https://t.co/CKTMJ0ei53
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Corporate cyber teams are rebranding from the ‘Department of No’ to AI risk advisers.
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Sunsetting decade-old legal protections for cyber threat-sharing with Washington gives nation-state hackers an opening https://t.co/FUYrvhTApB
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WSJ Pro readers weigh in on the fallout from sunsetting the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, wiping out legal safeguards for businesses sharing attack data with Washington.
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Meridiam has raised over $1.8 billion for its latest infrastructure fund focused on North America, where the investment firm sees opportunities in upgrades of roads and airports https://t.co/gNUwGJfNiT
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The European firm closed its latest fund focused on the region, where it sees opportunities to build roads, rail lines and airport facilities.
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Better security translates to necessary ‘cost or inconvenience,’ Singapore’s top cyber regulator says
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Better security translates to necessary ‘cost or inconvenience,’ Singapore’s top cyber regulator says.
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Cyber experts fear a wave of attacks after Congress this week let the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act lapse https://t.co/FUYrvhU8f9
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WSJ Pro readers weigh in on the fallout from sunsetting the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, wiping out legal safeguards for businesses sharing attack data with Washington.
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Courts are tossing out more data-breach cases than before. “Having personal information exposed in a data breach—which has happened to everyone—is not enough to sue,” says one lawyer. https://t.co/pfHcIo3fKO
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Plaintiffs are facing a higher bar on what constitutes ‘harm’ when their personal data is exposed, lawyers say.
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Congress failed to renew legal protections for companies sharing cyberattack data with the government. Now, hacker intelligence sharing is set to “almost cease to exist overnight.” https://t.co/tfFpuWXsAz
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Congress failed to renew legal protections for companies sharing cyberattack data with the government. Now, hacker intelligence sharing is set to “almost cease to exist overnight.”
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U.S. courts are taking a tougher line on what constitutes “harm” in data-breach cases https://t.co/pfHcIo3fKO
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Plaintiffs are facing a higher bar on what constitutes ‘harm’ when their personal data is exposed, lawyers say.
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CVS’s Omnicare files bankruptcy after it’s found liable in government lawsuit over prescriptions https://t.co/wDrD8aUMCD
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Omnicare filed for chapter 11 after New York jury found the country’s largest long-term-care pharmacy dispensed drugs without legitimate prescriptions.
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