The acquisition is one of Cisco’s largest, and continues an acquisition streak that has built out the company’s cybersecurity offerings. The company will finance the deal with a combination of cash and debt, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) confirmed to Recorded Future News that the connectivity issues that affected check-in kiosks and electronic gates at airports last week are the result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

Organizations should prioritize revisiting their security readiness and up-leveling their cyber vulnerability and risk management programs by learning from data breaches and understanding the potential impact of compromised data.

China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has accused the U.S. of breaking into Huawei’s servers, stealing critical data, and implanting backdoors since 2009, amid mounting geopolitical tensions between the two countries.

One in three Americans now use password managers, up from one in five in 2022, according to an online poll by Security.org that quizzed 1,051 American adults on how they use passwords and password managers.

FDM said its investigation uncovered a vulnerability in a script on its site that the hackers exploited to tamper with the download page and lead the site visitors to the fake domain deb.fdmpkg[.]org hosting the malicious .deb file.

Cybersecurity experts urged Congress to avoid a government shutdown on October 1 – the start of the new federal fiscal year – telling a House panel that a lapse would damage efforts to keep the nation secure.

Japanese electronics giant Omron recently patched programmable logic controller (PLC) and engineering software vulnerabilities that were discovered by industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos during the analysis of a sophisticated piece of malware.

Energized by the hype around generative AI, enterprises are aggressively pursuing practical applications of this new technology while remaining cautious about the risks, according to ISG.

The flaws were found in the unified communications and collaboration solution by researchers at SEC Consult, an Austria-based cybersecurity consulting firm that is part of the Atos Group’s Eviden business.