Every August, the cybersecurity community gathers in Las Vegas for a week of conferences at Black Hat and DEF CON. This year's Black Hat drew more than 20,000 in person, with another 1,700 signing up for on-demand access. DEF CON 32 said it expected 30,000 attendees at its conference later in the week; meanwhile, BSidesLV, The Diana Initiative and other events drew the thousand...
READA recent widespread outage, precipitated by CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. pushing a faulty content update to Windows hosts, affected IT and operational technology (OT) systems around the world. Although details of the causes are still unfolding, CrowdStrike issued a statement regarding the involvement of its products, saying that "there was an issue with a Falcon content update for...
READThis summer brought two separate but significant events that proved one thing: spending on cloud security is set to soar. In July, Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz walked away from a $23 billion deal with Google, choosing instead to bet on its own growth and pursue an IPO. Around the same time, CrowdStrike released a faulty security update, causing an outage that left flights ...
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