Unsealing the Deal: Cyber Threats to Mergers and Acquisitions Persist in a Hot Market

Risks Posed by Sensitive Corporate Communications, Broadened Attack Surface In 2015, a record $5 trillion dollars was tied up in mergers and acquisitions M&A deals, according to JP Morgan. So far, mega deals in 2016 include Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn, Shire’s acquisition of Baxalta, and...

Cybercrime Group Preys on Wall Street Insider Information

A criminal hacking group with an innate understanding of how Wall Street moves and what influences stock prices has found a soft spot in more than 100 publicly traded companies and is stealing, among other data, mergers and acquisitions intelligence. The group is homed in on healthcare and...

Data Breach Exposes Customer Payment Card Information

Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU announced yesterday that a data breach may have exposed the credit and debit card information of an unknown number of its customers at various grocery store locations in more than 18 states. Behind Kroger’s, Albertsons is the second largest grocery store...

Mergers and Acquisitions: When Two Companies and APT Groups Come Together

With Apple’s purchase of Beats, Pfizer’s failed bids for AstraZeneca, and financial experts pointing to a rally in the M&A market, the last month was a busy one for mergers and acquisitions. Of course, when we first see headlines of a high profile company’s plans for a merger or acquisition, we...

Google buy Reverse Engineering Company Zynamics (German security firm) !

Google has just acquired a small German software company called Zynamics. The company, which was founded in 2004, focuses on reverse engineering — that is, analyzing software malware in particular for which no source code is available. It's an incredibly interesting and complicated problem to try...

The Oracle Quarterly Patch Update

January 18th marks the 6th anniversary of the Oracle Critical Patch Update CPU in its current form as a quarterly patch. For those who remember, before the CPU, Oracle released patches as Security Alerts, the last being Security Alert 68 at the end of August 2004. In the past 6 years, CPUs have...