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Tag: cybersecurity

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U.S. Officials Tell Tech Startups to Beware of Foreign Spies Cloaked as Investors

Competitive swimmer

For every Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, there are thousands of technology startups that sputter, stall and collapse. They typically face ruthless competition to secure sufficient funding to begin building their businesses. Now it seems star...

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CrowdStrike’s Woes Highlight Concerns About Bespoke Accounting Metric

View through rose-colored lenses

By any measure, the last two weeks of July have been brutal for cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike reported what it called “exceptional” first quarter financial results in early June – taunting competitors Microsoft and Palo Alto N...

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SEC Breaks New Ground with Cybersecurity Enforcement Case

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R.R. Donnelly & Sons Co. doesn’t seem like the type of company that’s likely to make waves. Once the world’s largest commercial printer, Chicago-based RRD boasts that it has “the industry’s most trusted portfolio of marketing, packaging...

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SEC Chimes in on Early Cybersecurity Disclosures

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Earlier this year, we offered readers three lessons from the initial wave of disclosures made under new cybersecurity rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2023. For example, we saw companies attempting to frame what cou...

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Three Lessons from Early Disclosures of Cybersecurity Incidents

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Many health care providers have gone through a rough stretch in recent weeks following a cyberattack on a unit of UnitedHealth Group. According to the New York Times, “hundreds, if not thousands,” of care providers couldn’t get insurance ap...

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