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US cyber security firm CyCognito raised $ 18 million in financing

US-based Israeli cybersecurity firm CyCognito, a company that develops a security analysis service that simulates the work of a cyber attacker to detect the weaknesses of an organization, announced Tuesday that it has raised $ 18 million in a round of Series A financing. The round was led by US VC Lightspeed Venture Partners, with the participation of Microsoft President John W. Thompson and Sorenson Ventures. Existing investors such as UpWest and Dan Scheinman added another $ 5 million during the company's seed round, bringing the company's current capital to $ 23 million to date. Founded in 2017 by Dima Potekhin and Rob Gurzeev, Cycognito employs a team of 50, of which 38 are in Israel and the rest in Palo Alto, California. The company has presented its next generation platform. "Our research and experience shows that most organizations rely on legacy security approaches that cannot detect and detect critical security risks but, ironically, bad actors can search ...

Minor updates of Apple systems

Yesterday evening a whole series of minor updates of Apple systems were released, which are currently in use. Some of them apply only to selected models. Apple remembers users of older devices that are no longer supported by the latest systems. iOS 12.4.2 This update is for devices that have not received iOS 13.1 and iPadOS 13.1, but can work with iOS 12. These are: iPad Air 1, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and iPod touch generation six. According to the document: About the security content of iOS 12.4.2, the update patches a rather serious error allowing the attacker to remotely terminate the application and even to execute unauthorized code. The update can be found wherever it is, i.e. in Settings> General> Updates. It must be done. macOS 10.14.6 Supplemental Update 2 This is an update to the macOS system that is still valid. At 10.15 Catalina we are still waiting and I doubt that it will be ready on October 4. With the update for 10.14.6,...