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An intrusion campaign which targets monitoring software from the French company CENTREON has been reported to have breached several French institutions between late 2017 and 2020. The systems that were hit were running CentOS, a free version of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux distribution.

Breached cyber security company FireEye has explicitly said that the alleged Russian group APT29 is not behind the attack on its own infrastructure and a number of other private and public firms, according to the head of security company Dragos.

Networking giant Cisco has completed its acquisition of security vendor Sourcefire.

Whereas most vendors have approached Next Generation Firewall technologies from the perspective of an existing firewall product, Sourcefire has turned the concept inside out and today launches an IPS-based device.