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Eduard Kovacs

Romania

Managing Editor at SecurityWeek

Contributing Editor @SecurityWeek - I cover ICS security, data breaches, vulnerabilities, mobile security, cybercrime, malware, and industry news

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  • 2 weeks ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

    The US Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Tuesday shared information on a recently discovered email system breach that has been described as a “major incident”. The OCC, whose role is to regulate and supervise national and foreign banks, revealed in late February that it had become aware of a security incident involving an administrative account in its email system.

  • 2 weeks ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

    Oracle has started sending out written notifications to customers regarding the recent cybersecurity incident, but faces mounting criticism over the way it handled the disclosure of the hack. A hacker announced on a cybercrime forum on March 20 that they had hacked Oracle Cloud servers, offering to sell millions of records allegedly associated with over 140,000 tenants, including encrypted/hashed credentials.

  • 2 weeks ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

    Several industrial giants have released their ICS security advisories for the March 2025 Patch Tuesday. Siemens has published nine new advisories. One advisory urges customers to replace the Sentron 7KT PAC1260 Data Manager with the newer PAC1261. The former is affected by critical vulnerabilities that can allow an attacker to access files and execute arbitrary code, but it will not receive any patches. A critical flaw has also been found in Industrial Edge.

  • 2 weeks ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

    Spektion emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with $5 million in seed funding for its software vulnerability management solution. The Austin, Texas-based company has announced the general availability of its platform, which aims to address the shortcomings of traditional vulnerability management solutions.

  • 2 weeks ago | securityweek.com | Eduard Kovacs

    Enterprise governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) solutions provider Anecdotes has raised another $30 million as part of its Series B funding round. Anecdotes announced in January 2024 that it had raised $25 million in a Series B funding round. On Tuesday it announced that the extended Series B round has brought the company an additional $30 million, which brings the total Series B funding to $55 million and the total raised by the company since its inception to $85 million.

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Eduard Kovacs
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10 Apr 25

Law enforcement agencies in multiple countries have announced the arrests of users of the malicious Smokeloader botnet. https://t.co/lRWDnhYg2A

Eduard Kovacs
Eduard Kovacs @EduardKovacs
10 Apr 25

Juniper Networks has patched two dozen vulnerabilities in Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, and dozens of flaws in Junos Space third-party dependencies. https://t.co/K9F0edVnis

Eduard Kovacs
Eduard Kovacs @EduardKovacs
10 Apr 25

Routers are the riskiest devices in enterprise networks as they contain the most critical vulnerabilities, a new Forescout report shows. https://t.co/ub5kQw8UsK