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COMPANY NEWS: Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced it is opening up its award-winning risk management platform to AppSec teams to bring their own detections to assess, prioritise and remediate the risk associated with first-party software and its embedded open-source components.

European security firm MDSec has taken exception to the release of a blog post by another security outfit, Proofpoint, about its penetration testing framework Nighthawk, accusing the latter of making "unsubstantiated and speculative projections" about the framework.

COMPANY NEWS: The XDR Alliance has celebrated its first anniversary at this year’s Black Hat conference. A primary focus of year one for the alliance was collaboration on a Common Information Model (CIM), now available as open source via public GitHub with Apache 2.0 licensing. The CIM provides the broader cybersecurity industry with a common foundation for understanding, normalizing, getting deeper visibility into, and enriching log data across technologies to provide organisations with simplified integration and a more holistic picture of their environments.

Well-known information security expert Dan Kaminsky has died suddenly at the age of 42, leading to an outpouring of tributes from the community of which he was part.

The company that organises the Black Hat hackers conference in the US has reached a legal settlement with a company known as Crown Sterling over a sponsored talk that was presented at the 2019 conference and then taken down from the conference website after several attendees questioned its veracity.

The Black Hat security conference has changed its mind about having Texas Republican Will Hurd as keynote speaker for its event in Las Vegas from 3 to 8 August, after the politician's voting on women's issues surfaced and was criticised.

A Danish-based startup is taking a fresh approach to security testing, recruiting white hat hackers to test vulnerabilities for a reward.

A group of Chinese hackers, possibly linked to the Chinese Army, have been caught red handed breaking into a fake US water system.

Australian university students will race the clock to protect networks from cyber criminals in the inaugral Cyber Defence University Challenge.

Charlie Miller, a well-known security researcher in the Apple space, has found that your MacBook battery may-well be out to get you (if you don't get it first).

Adobe is scrambling to patch Acrobat and Reader after a critical security vulnerability was disclosed last week.

One of McAfee's rivals has warned people searching for information concerning that company's recent 'false positive' slip-up may be served with a dose of malware.