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Accenture Makes $4 Billion Push into Industrial Cybersecurity

By Kim S. Nash

 

Hello. Accenture is acquiring a majority stake in Dragos and buying two other security firms outright as businesses race to secure the physical systems that keep economies online.

The transactions, which combined are valued at $4.18 billion, create one of the largest players in the operational technology, or OT, security market, WSJ Pro's James Rundle reports. Read the full story.

More news below. 

Note: The WSJ Pro Cybersecurity newsletter won't be published Friday in observance of Juneteenth in the U.S. We'll be back Monday.

 

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More Cyber News

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A leak of credentials for Fortinet firewalls and virtual private networks puts nearly 74,000 devices at risk worldwide, including at companies such as Chevron, Comcast and Toyota, according to cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko and cyber company Hudson Rock. Fortinet itself is among those with leaked user names and passwords. (Bleeping Computer)

  • Fortinet said it is aware of the breach and a campaign to exploit the compromised information, TechCrunch reported.

Medical testing company Australian Clinical Labs said a cyberattack at a tech provider led to the theft of patient data. The incident affected the lab's SunDoctors unit, which couldn't determine which patients were affected and so notified a broad group of 280,000 people. (Reuters) 

Ann Barron-DiCamillo joined U.S. Bank as global CISO after more than five years in tech and cyber operations at Citi. She succeeds Tim Held, who was U.S. Bank's top cyber executive for seven of his 20 years there. Earlier, Barron-DiCamillo led threat intelligence and incident response at American Express.

CISA is evaluating Anthropic's Mythos. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has full access to the AI model, Nextgov reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The White House hasn't provided guidance for how CISA should handle the model, the people said. 

  • President Trump said negotiations with Anthropic over restoring access to the company’s latest AI models were “going fine,” comments that came at a Group of Seven summit where some world leaders were concerned about losing access to leading AI tools. (WSJ)

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How hackers found a back door into the American living room. The discovery that millions of digital home devices are secretly powering dangerous cyberattacks began with a phone call from a top Microsoft security executive to his counterpart at Comcast. (WSJ)

 

About Us

The WSJ Pro Cybersecurity team is Deputy Bureau Chief Kim S. Nash and reporters Angus Loten and James Rundle. Follow us on X @WSJCyber. Reach the team by replying to any newsletter you receive or by emailing Kim at kim.nash@wsj.com.

 
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