Enterprise identity company raises new capital from JP Morgan and Hercules Capital as it prepares for an IPO exit.

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A statewide outage of the Massachusetts 911 system was the result of a firewall that blocked calls from reaching emergency responders.

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The zero-day is tagged as CVE-2024-32896 and described as an elevation of privilege issue in Pixel Firmware.

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The Windows vulnerability carries a CVSS severity score of 9.8/10 and can be exploited by via specially crafted malicious MSMQ packets.

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Patch Tuesday: Adobe fixes critical flaws and warns of the risk of code execution attacks on Windows and macOS platforms.

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Fortinet announces plans to acquire Lacework, a late-stage cloud security startup that was once listed as a “unicorn” company valued north of $1 billion.

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Amidst public pressure, Microsoft changes the set-up experience of Copilot+ PCs to disable the controversial Windows Recall feature by default.

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Tenable goes shopping again in Israel with plans to buy early stage startup Eureka Security to boost data security posture management tooling.

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Cloudlfare acquires Boston seed-stage startup BastionZero to bolster its Zero Trust Network Access technology portfolio.

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SecurityWeek editor-at-large Ryan Naraine examines the broad tension between tech innovation and privacy rights at a time when ChatGPT-like bots and generative-AI apps are starting to dominate the landscape. 

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