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Slack launches Enterprise Key Management (EKM) to provide complete control over encryption keys

The work collaboration hub, Slack, yesterday, launched Slack Enterprise Key Management (EKM) for its enterprise customers. The feature is introduced to give customers control...
Cryptojacking on the rise

IBM announces the launch of Blockchain World Wire, a global blockchain network for cross-border...

Yesterday, IBM launched its Blockchain World Wire, a global blockchain network for cross-border payments that will make use of Stablecoin by U.S. dollars and...
Boeing air plane

Two ‘Boeing 737 MAX’ air crashes within six months – the authority(FAA) or software(MCAS)...

Two fatal air crashes in Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 model in less than six months have aroused a lot of questions on the U.S....
Packt and Humble Bundle come together for cybersecurity bundle

Cloudflare raises $150M with Franklin Templeton leading the latest round of funding

After a long break from fundraising, yesterday Cloudflare, a U.S. based company that provides content delivery network services, Internet security, etc, announced that it...
ACME

Let’s Encrypt ACME Protocol is now standardized by the IETF

ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment) is no longer just a Let's Encrypt effort as it is now standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force...
Microsoft

Announcing DTrace for Windows Insider

Microsoft announced on its blog today that the company has added support for DTrace into its Insider builds. The forthcoming Windows 10 feature update...
Hacker, cyborg programmer on a computer

Resecurity reports ‘IRIDUIM’ behind Citrix data breach, 200+ government agencies, oil and gas companies,...

Last week, Citrix, the American cloud computing company, disclosed that it suffered a data breach on its internal network. They were informed of this...
Flickr

Flickr says Creative Commons photos won’t be subject to 1,000 picture limit

On November 1st, 2018 Flickr announced that they would be limiting free accounts to just 1,000 pictures. But it recently made an exception: that...
Email service

A security researcher reveals his discovery on 800+ Million leaked Emails available online

A security researcher Bob Diachenko shared his discovery of an unprotected 150GB-sized MongoDB instance. He said that there were a huge number of emails...
Machine learning based Email-sec-360°surpasses 60 antivirus engines in detecting malicious emails

ChaCha20-Poly1305 vulnerability issue affects OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.1.0

On Wednesday, March 6, the OpenSSL team revealed a low severity vulnerability in the ChaCha20-Poly1305, an AEAD cipher that incorrectly allows a nonce to...

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The FTC issues orders to 7 broadband companies to analyze ISP...

The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that they have issued orders to seven U.S. Internet broadband providers to analyze how these broadband companies carry...

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