Reuters reports that interest in acquiring U.S.-Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which counts Microsoft, McAfee, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks as its competitors, has escalated among private equity firms in recent weeks.
Organizations developing software have been urged by the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to eradicate buffer overflow vulnerabilities by implementing secure-by-design principles, The Register reports.
Hackread reports that Chinese Internet-of-Things grow light and agricultural software firm Mars Hydro had 1.17 TB of data containing 2.7 billion records inadvertently leaked by a misconfigured database.
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