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Signal Testing New Private Contact Discovery Service

Signal is testing out a new private contact discovery service that will let the app determine if a user has Signal contacts in their address book, but forbid its servers from accessing the users’ address book.
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Three Equifax execs sold $1.8 million of stock days after breach discovery

Three Equifax execs sold $  1.8 million of stock days after breach discovery

Three Equifax executives sold a combined $ 1.8 million worth of shares just days after the credit reporting agency discovered a massive data breach.

But before it was made public.

David Bisson reports.

Graham Cluley

Cisco seeks faster time to discovery for breaches, compromises

Cisco has announced security upgrades to cut the time compromises go unnoticed on endpoints, giving attackers less time to do damage if they get past preventive security measures.

Unveiled at the Cisco Partner Summit this week, the new AMP for Endpoints comes with a lightweight agent to gather data that is analyzed in the Cisco AMP cloud. This lifts the processing burden from customers’ infrastructure.

And the platform now includes an agentless feature for devices that can’t take an agent, such as visitors’ laptops.

In addition to the cloud version, the analytics part of the platform can also be purchased for deployment on customer premises in their own private clouds. Detection, analysis and recommended response are handled in the cloud and pushed to the endpoints.

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Network World Tim Greene