The company selling the software claims it will only sell it for legal uses. But the RAT gives buyers everything they need to build a botnet.

Microsoft said it has used this approach 12 times in two years to shut down 84 fake websites associated with the state-sponsored hacking group called Fancy Bear.

When asked to rank U.S. election security preparedness, Cisco’s director of threat management and incident response said “little to none.”

Oracle debuts another autonomous database cloud service; Facebook open sources its transport layer security library; and AWS rolls out serverless option for Amazon Aurora.

On the sidelines at Black Hat, a Microsoft exec said the Tech Accord is an example of how the company works with other technology vendors to advance security.

During the Black Hat Keynote, Google’s Parisa Tabriz, who manages the Project Zero bug hunting team, urged tech companies to build coalitions to solve complex security problems.

"It’s somebody’s day job to make sure they exploit you and remain a presence on your network,” said Josh Ray, global cyber defense lead for Accenture Security.

Rahul Kashyap joins Awake from endpoint security company Cylance and says while endpoint has seen all the action over the past couple of years, “the network is where the

Threat researchers found a rise in attacks on widely-used enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications such as SAP and Oracle, which currently have a combined 9,000 known security vulnerabilities.

While it’s not the first security firm to go public this year — Zscaler and Carbon Black also completed successful IPOs — at $288 million it would be the

Unlike traditional security platforms that target this type of malware from a threat prevention vantage point, the data protection and management company comes at it from a backup perspective.

Both Corelight and Databricks are based on open source technologies — Corelight on Bro and Databricks on Apache Spark. While the open source technologies have been combined, this is

One-quarter of all security incidents involve insiders, according to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report.

Sift’s product, Cloud Hunter, uses machine learning, analytics, and graph visualization capabilities to detect and respond to threats across infrastructure-as-a-service platforms.

Following the tumultuous purchase of Brocade (that reportedly led to the layoffs of 1,100 employees) and the blocked purchase of Qualcomm — Broadcom seeks to diversify its portfolio with

Dell Technologies’ venture arm invests about $100 million annually in technology startups, and about a quarter of that goes to security companies.

Threat researchers discovered that access to multiple U.S. government systems are being sold worldwide on these shops for as little as $10.

AT&T says it will continue to invest in the Open Threat Exchange, an open threat intelligence community started by AlienVault.

Illumio’s new head of cybersecurity strategy — former Obama administration executive Jonathan Reiber — literally wrote the book on cyberstrategy at the U.S. Department of Defense. Reiber is Illumio’s

The startup’s customers include banks and industrial firms. Its latest funding round brings its total to $60.5 million.

An IPO could value Tenable between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, according to anonymous sources.

The company’s platform “preempts” threats (hence the name) based on identity, behavior, and risk. One of its new investors — Blackstone — started as a customer.

This brings its total to $39 million. Kleiner Perkins led the funding round with participation from Battery Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, TenEleven Ventures, and Vertical Venture Partners.

Ping Identity also launched a new product that builds on Elastic Beam’s technology, as well as its own API security product, and uses AI to identify and block attacks