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CISA needs 600 more people, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told lawmakers Wednesday. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is part of DHS, would work well with about 2,800 staffers, up from 2,200, he said. Hundreds were cut early in the second Trump administration, which has proposed shrinking CISA's budget again in 2027. (CyberScoop)
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Connecticut tightened its 2023 data privacy laws. One amendment makes it easier for residents to opt out of data broker collections. Another lowers the bar for when organizations must disclose breaches to 35,000 state residents affected, from 100,000. (StateScoop)
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Businesses must also post notices of when they are using facial recognition tech.
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Interval between hacker intrusion attempts at UnitedHealth Group, resulting in 450,000 thwarted cyberattacks annually, the company said in a report to investors.
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CrowdStrike raised revenue guidance for the year after swinging to a profit in the first quarter. The cybersecurity company said it now expects total revenue for fiscal 2027 of $5.91 billion to $5.96 billion instead of $5.87 billion to $5.93 billion. For the first quarter, CrowdStrike posted a profit of $27.8 million, compared with a loss of $104.3 million in the same quarter a year earlier. (WSJ)
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Cloud-security company Netskope reported a first-quarter loss that ballooned to $116.5 million from $79.2 million a year earlier due to climbing costs. Revenue climbed to $201.6 million, ahead of the $198.2 million analysts expected. (MarketWatch)
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Cyber telemetry firm Coralogix raised $200 million in Series F funding led by Advent, CPPIB, and Greenfield. The company is valued at $1.6 billion after the latest round. (SecurityWeek)
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U.S. officials arrested a dual U.S.-Iranian national on charges of violating sanctions against Iran by supplying encryption equipment and other tech to the country, the Justice Department said. Jamshid Ghomi, who lived in Southern California, led Tehran-based Faraz Pardaz Rayaneh Co. and for 12 years ending in 2023 used personal payment accounts to buy computer gear for his company that eventually made its way to Iran's nuclear program, the Justice Department said.
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A Latvian man who pleaded guilty last year to helping negotiate ransoms in several cyberattacks was sentenced to 8.5 years in U.S. federal prison. Deniss Zolotarjovs worked with other hackers to attack at least 53 businesses and municipalities from June 2021 through March 2023, the Justice Department said. Zolotarjovs received about 10% of the ransom payments extorted, prosecutors said.
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