If compromised, the flaw could allow an attacker to write files to any path on the user’s machine.

The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux shell as root.

Decibel already invested in two startups: Blameless, a site reliability engineering (SRE) company that launched last week. And in February, it participated in security company Cmd’s $15 million Series

The storage vendor isn’t aware of any customer attacks resulting from the vulnerability and said it could only have potentially affected a small portion of the customer base.

The network operator is positioning the marketplace for two distinct use cases: turnkey applications and self-service APIs.

This round brings CloudFlare’s total funding to $330 million. Its investors include CapitalG (formerly Google Capital), Microsoft, Baidu, and Qualcomm.

The European Parliament calls for action at the EU level on security threats linked to China.

Security research firm Resecurity said that the attacks are the work of the Iranian-linked hacker group known as Iridium. The firm believes Iridium has hit more than 200 organizations.

Adlink and Google Cloud partner on IoT; Red Hat debuts a Kubernetes-native Java framework; and news, partnerships, and releases from RSA.

The threat researchers say there’s no deeper, symbolic meaning behind the cool new name. But it does makes for an easy-to-get-behind team tattoo.

Verizon makes changes to its board of directors following the retirement of two prominent board members.

The new security division will integrate and automate Alien Lab’s threat intelligence into a security management platform.

The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in Texas, seeks a permanent injunction against the ban and a declaratory judgement that the restrictions tied to the 2019

The operator also unveiled its second annual Mobile Security Index, which found that more companies suffered a mobile device attack compared to last year, and they were hit harder.

Archer is a governance, risk management, and compliance platform. NetWitness is a threat detection platform designed to sniff out anomalies in user behavior that are indicative of cyberthreats.

Alliance members will demonstrate how their products and services work together to secure enterprises at the Lookout RSA Conference booth this week.

The vendor claims it’s the first cloud native security information and event management (SIEM) tool in a major cloud platform.

The investment is further validation that microsegmentation is real, and Illumio CEO Andrew Rubin admits that VMware deserves “quite a bit of credit” for legitimizing this technology.

VMware loses one executive and gains another from Oracle; Puppet gets a new CEO.

Nicolas Noviello joined Symantec following its $4.65 billion acquisition of his old firm Blue Coat in 2016.

The products are focused on managed endpoint detection and response, enhanced EDR 4.0, endpoint protection, and hardening capabilities.

China and Russia were responsible for almost half of the incident response episodes.

But “this rate of investment is not sustainable,” Strategic Cyber Ventures warns. There are likely many security “zombies” that initially raised big rounds but now growth has slowed.

This isn’t Microsoft’s first bounty program. Its largest reward offers up to $250,000 for finding critical flaws in its Hyper-V hypervisor.