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Guardian Digital Celebrates 20 Years of Revolutionizing Digital Security, Securing Email with Open Source - Pioneers of business email security for the past 20 years, Guardian Digital draws on the merits of Open Source coupled with expert engineering and unparalleled customer support.

Press Release: Guardian Digital Leverages the Power of Open Source to Combat Evolving Email Security Threats - Cloud-based email security solution utilizes the open source methodology for securing business email, recognized by many as the best approach to the problem of maintaining security in the relentlessly dynamic environment of the Internet.


  Massive Quest Diagnostics data breach impacts 12 million patients (Jun 3)
 

A massive data breach has struck Quest Diagnostics and the information of up to 11.9 million patients has potentially been compromised.

  Google Chrome 75 released with secret Reader Mode (Jun 3)
 

Google has released today version 75 of its Chrome browser, available for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Windows.

  How a quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours (Jun 3)
 

Many people worry that quantum computers will be able to crack certain codes used to send secure messages. The codes in question encrypt data using "trapdoor" mathematical functions that work easily in one direction but not in the other. That makes encrypting data easy but decoding it hugely difficult without the help of a special key.

  Sorry, FCC - killing net neutrality probably didn't expand internet access (Jun 3)
 

If you believe the US Federal Communications Commission, last June's end of net neutrality--the system that required internet service providers to treat all data equally--has helped more Americans get broadband access. But the data behind this claim is highly controversial.

  What Is Tracking Protection and Why Mozilla Enabled It by Default in Firefox (Jun 5)
 

Mozilla has pledged to keep browsing fully private for its users, and with Firefox now becoming the only worthy alternative to Chromium-powered browsers, delivering on these promises is the only way to go.

  New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide (Jun 7)
 

Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publicly accessible Windows RDP servers on the Internet.

  Baltimore ransomware attack will cost the city over $18 million (Jun 6)
 

Fresh off dealing with chaos caused by last month's ransomware attack, the city of Baltimore has a new problem to deal with -- the $18 million in damages that came with it.

  Major HSM vulnerabilities impact banks, cloud providers, governments (Jun 9)
 

Two security researchers have recently revealed vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely to retrieve sensitive data stored inside special computer components known as HSMs (Hardware Security Modules).

  Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds (Jun 6)
 

If you're a cryptocurrency startup, would you face a huge backlash by hacking your own customers to keep their funds safe if you know that a hacker is about to launch an attack and steal their funds?

  Facebook to stop Huawei pre-installing apps on smartphones (Jun 7)
 

Facebook is reportedly planning to stop Chinese tech giant Huawei from pre-installing its applications on future Huawei smartphones.