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TechCrunch | Firefox maker Mozilla said it will not trust certificates from surveillance maker DarkMatter, ending a months-long effort to be whitelisted by the popular browser. |
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BetterCloud Monitor | Altitude, BetterCloud’s annual IT conference, will be held September 23-25 in San Francisco this year. "Altitude is the best place to talk to a community of like-minded thinkers who are going to help you directly with your day-to-day job," says Ryan Donnon, the Director of IT at First Round Capital. According to Ryan, Altitude is "THE community that you need to be in" if you're using any SaaS apps in your IT environment. |
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Security Boulevard | Phishing attacks result in significant losses and damages to businesses every year. For Google and Facebook, the losses totaled more than $100 million. Belgium’s Creland Bank handed over more than $75 million to cybercriminals. And the Austrian aerospace parts maker FACC lost $61 million. What’s causing these types of massive losses? Each of these organizations were the victims of different (and costly) types of phishing attacks. |
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ZDNet | Yesterday, Microsoft published its monthly roll-up of security updates known as Patch Tuesday. This month, the Redmond-based company patched 77 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days—security flaws that were being actively exploited in the wild. |