Risk Assessments/Management

California-based semiconductor and security testing vendor Synopsys has entered a $330 million to purchase software-as-a-service security provider WhiteHat Security, reports CRN.

Cisco has addressed 19 security vulnerabilities in its security products including Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, Firepower Management Center, and Firepower Threat Defense with 11 of the fixed bugs having high severity, SecurityWeek reports.

SecurityWeek reports that billions of "harmful" app installations have been averted by Google after blocking 1.2 million apps from the Google Play store.

Tennessee-based Austin Peay State University had its systems impacted by a ransomware attack on Wednesday, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

VentureBeat reports that consumers were the leading target of cybercriminals during the last quarter of 2021, experiencing a 73% increase in cyber incidents over the third quarter, followed by the healthcare industry.

An HHS Office of the Inspector General audit found the HHS security program is not meeting all elements of the "managed and measurable" maturity level and, thus, is "not effective."

The Hacker News reports that a 15.3 million request-per-second volumetric distributed denial-of-service attack, one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks ever, has been stopped by Cloudflare.

ZDNet reports that Linux desktops could be exploited using vulnerabilities within a commonly used system component to allow privilege escalation and malware installation.