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Jul 31, 2019 6:02 AM ET

Do You Really Need an Investor-Focused Agent to Find Great Deals?

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 31, 2019 - A common discussion point on BiggerPockets is the importance of finding an investor-focused real estate agent. The necessity of having such an agent is so commonly accepted that I have even seen new investors use, “I haven’t found an investor-focused agent yet,” as an excuse for not taking action. I think that is a ridiculous excuse for not investing. Yes, there is some merit to finding an agent who also invests. [more...]

Jul 31, 2019 2:23 AM ET

Atlas Mara Limited Announces Buyback of Shares – 29/07/2019

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 31, 2019 - TORTOLA Atlas Mara Limited ("Atlas Mara" or the "Company" and, including its subsidiaries, the "Group"), the sub-Sahara African financial services group, today announces that on 26 July 2019, the Company repurchased 4,426 shares, all of which were purchased at an average price of $1.30 and will be held as treasury shares. Atlas Mara repurchased shares pursuant to the authority granted by its Board of Directors, announced in its Q3 2018 Results. [more...]

Jul 31, 2019 2:15 AM ET

Eco (Atlantic) Oil and Gas Ltd Announces Audited Results Year Ended 31 March 2019 & Update

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 31, 2019 - TORONTO, ON Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd (AIM: ECO, TSX-V: EOG), the oil and gas exploration company with licences in highly prospective regions in Guyana and Namibia, is pleased to announce its results for the year ended 31 March 2019 and to provide a corporate and operational update. Highlights: · Financials o The Company ended the financial year (31 March 2019) with cash and cash equivalents of CAD 25.0 million. As. [more...]

Jul 30, 2019 6:25 AM ET

Trinity Cyber Secures $23 Million in Funding

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 30, 2019 - Cybersecurity services and solutions startup Trinity Cyber announced on Monday that it has raised $23 million through a funding round led by Intel Capital. The Bowie, Maryland-based company says it is taking new approach to cybersecurity, claiming “stealth interception of external threats” before they reach a customer's network. With technology that is designed to complement to existing cybersecurity tools, the company explains that its technology runs on Trinity Cyber owned hardware housed. [more...]

Jul 30, 2019 6:20 AM ET

How effective is your security operations center?

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 30, 2019 - While the SOC is considered an essential or important component of business, most security professionals rate their SOC’s effectiveness as low, and 49 percent say it is not fully aligned with business needs, according to a survey conducted by Devo Technology in partnership with the Ponemon Institute. Problems such as a lack of visibility into the network and IT infrastructure, a lack of confidence in the ability to find threats, and workplace stress on. [more...]

Jul 30, 2019 6:15 AM ET

Series of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Could Endanger 200 Million Devices

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 30, 2019 - Vulnerabilities in VxWorks' TCP stack could allow an attacker to execute random code, launch a DoS attack, or use the vulnerable system to attack other devices. A series of vulnerabilities in a real-time operating system (RTOS) could leave up to 200 million devices open to exploit. And those devices include everything from network firewalls to medical devices. The vulnerabilities aren't theoretical — the exploits have been demonstrated — and. [more...]

Jul 30, 2019 6:05 AM ET

Critical Flaws Found in VxWorks RTOS That Powers Over 2 Billion Devices

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 30, 2019 - Security researchers have discovered almost a dozen zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, one of the most widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) for embedded devices that powers over 2 billion devices across aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, automotive, consumer electronics, networking, and other critical industries.According to a new report Armis researchers shared with The Hacker News prior to its release, the vulnerabilities are collectively dubbed as URGENT/11 as they are 11 in total, 6. [more...]

Jul 30, 2019 2:37 AM ET

US Nuclear Uplisted to OTC-QB Market

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 30, 2019 - LOS ANGELES, CA -- The continued growth of US Nuclear Corp (OTC: UCLE) has led the company to upgrade to the OTC-QB market. US Nuclear Corp was previously listed on the OTC-Pink Marketplace, and this upgrade will help the company build shareholder value, increase visibility, and engage new investors. The key benefits of upgrading to OTC-QB include: Better Information: OTC-QB is recognized by the SEC as an established public market. The platform. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 6:40 AM ET

Ransomware hits Louisiana schools; state of emergency declared

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Wednesday declared a state of emergency after three public school districts were seized by ransomware. According to local news station KSLA, one of the affected school districts, Sabine Parish in northern Louisiana, released this statement on Wednesday night: The Sabine Parish School System was hit with an electronic virus early Sunday morning. This virus has disabled some of our technology systems and our central office phone system.. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 6:35 AM ET

As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - Scanning of random ports and the use of encrypted malware by online criminals is on the rise, according to a threat report by Sonicwall. By the end of 2018, around 20 per cent of all malware attacks (based on Sonicwall’s sampling of what it says were 700 million such intrusions) were coming through non-standard ports – a sum which had decreased by 13 per cent compared to 2018, it said. The company. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 6:35 AM ET

5 Key Factors Driving Brokerage Profitability

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - Brokerages’ gross margins and company revenues are continuing to face downward pressure, according to a new report from REAL Trends looking at brokerage profitability. However, some brokerages are standing out from the pack and maintaining and driving profits. REAL Trends surveyed hundreds of brokerages to identify the top five key drivers influencing profitability. The five profit drivers they identified are: 1. Team productivity Sixty-six percent of brokerages surveyed considered teams. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 6:30 AM ET

Cloud adoption and security are not mutually exclusive

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - As organizations continue to adopt cloud services to achieve their desired business objectives, many don’t realize that the thing that makes cloud computing great – speed, agility, easy implementation and scalability – also make it a nightmare for many security departments. “The paradigm of cloud computing goes hand in hand with a cultural change that is much bigger than the shift to the cloud itself,” Avi Shua, CEO and co-founder of. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 6:30 AM ET

Android devices could be hacked by playing a video due to CVE-2019-2107 flaw

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - Watch out! Playing a video on Android devices could be a dangerous operation due to a critical CVE-2019-2107 RCE flaw in Android OS between version 7.0 and 9.0. Playing a specially-crafted video on devices with the Android’s native video player application could allow attackers to compromise them due to a dangerous critical remote code execution flaw. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2107, affected Android OS between version 7.0 and 9.0 (Nougat, Oreo,. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 6:25 AM ET

Crooks used rare Steganography technique to hack fully patched websites in Latin America

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - Experts at Trustwave observed threat actors using a rare technique to compromise fully patched websites. Security experts at Trustwave observed threat actors using a rare steganography technique, attackers are hiding PHP scripts in Exchangeable Image Format (EXIF) headers of JPEG images that are uploaded on the website. The Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 6:20 AM ET

The rise of biometrics and passwordless security

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - Whether you realize it or not, our current era of mobile and cloud computing can be defined, both positively and negatively, by shared secrets. Shared secrets — passwords, authentication, and legacy multi-factor authentication — is the synchronous relationship between users and centralized authorities — online banks, social media sites, third-party applications — who hold the same secret. Both the credential authentication process and the centralized database of passwords and other. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 6:05 AM ET

Mynd Property Management acquires HomeUnion, expands offerings for real estate investors

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - Mynd Property Management raised $20 million just over a year ago, saying at the time that it planned to use the money to expand its business. And now, Mynd is doing just that. The company, which provides full-service property management of small multifamily buildings and single-family homes, announced recently that it has acquired HomeUnion, an online real-estate investment management firm. Mynd was founded in 2016 by Doug Brien and Colin Wiel, who previously. [more...]

Jul 29, 2019 2:34 AM ET

ATLAS Mara Limited Announces Buyback of Shares

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 29, 2019 - TORTOLA Atlas Mara Limited (LSE: ATMA) ("Atlas Mara" or the "Company" and, including its subsidiaries, the "Group"), the sub-Sahara African financial services group, today announces that on 25 July 2019, the Company repurchased 3,000 shares, all of which were purchased at an average price of $1.30 and will be held as treasury shares.Atlas Mara repurchased shares pursuant to the authority granted by its Board of Directors, announced in its Q3 2018. [more...]

Jul 28, 2019 7:37 AM ET

Neighbourhood Holdings LP Closes Unprecedented Two Year Committed Revolving Facility of $110M

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 28, 2019 - VANCOUVER, British Columbia,-- Neighbourhood Holdings Limited Partnership (“Neighbourhood”), the leading provider of alternative mortgages in Canada, today announced the closing of a committed revolving credit facility of $110 million with ATB Financial and another Canadian financial institution. With an additional uncommitted $50 million accordion, this transaction is not only unprecedented but among the largest in the industry. This capital grants Neighbourhood certainty of financing over the mid-term as it looks. [more...]

Jul 28, 2019 7:30 AM ET

Adventus Announces C$10 Million Bought Deal Private Placement

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 28, 2019 - TORONTO,-- Adventus Mining Corporation (“Adventus” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: ADZN; OTCQX: ADVZF) has today entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by Raymond James Ltd. (the "Underwriters") pursuant to which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase on a "bought deal" private placement basis 10,000,000 common shares of the Company (the "Shares") at a price of C$1.00 per Share (the "Offering Price"), representing total gross proceeds of C$10,000,000 (the "Offering"). In addition,. [more...]

Jul 28, 2019 7:03 AM ET

Jones Soda Completes $9 Million Strategic Financing with SOL Global Portfolio Company HeavenlyRx

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 28, 2019 - SEATTLE,-- Jones Soda Co. (the “Company”) (OTCQB: JSDA), a leader in the craft soda category known for its unique branding and authentic connection to its consumers, has completed a $9.0 million strategic financing with HeavenlyRx Ltd. (“HeavenlyRx”), a portfolio company of SOL Global Investments (“SOL Global”) focused on acquiring unique brands to sell CBD and hemp-infused products. Under the terms of the agreement, HeavenlyRx purchased 15.0 million shares of Jones. [more...]

Jul 28, 2019 6:38 AM ET

Xalles Announces Current Negotiations and Updates

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 28, 2019 - WASHINGTON, D.C.-- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Xalles Holdings Inc. (OTC: XALL), a company focusing on accelerating fintech companies, leveraging blockchain technology for financial reconciliation, and payment auditing solutions, today announces the current status of multiple primary negotiations underway to prepare the company for the next quarter and the future. As previously announced, Xalles plans to complete its audits, the process to become fully SEC reporting, and submit its Quotation Board (OTCQB). [more...]

Jul 28, 2019 6:25 AM ET

Carbon Black to Announce Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results on Thursday, August 1, 2019

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 28, 2019 - WALTHAM, Mass., -- Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK), a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection, today announced that it will report its second quarter 2019 financial results for the period ended June 30, 2019 after the U.S. financial markets close on Thursday, August 1, 2019. In conjunction with this announcement, Carbon Black will host a conference call to discuss the company’s financial results and business outlook on Thursday, August 1, 2019, at 5:00 p.m.. [more...]

Jul 27, 2019 8:44 AM ET

Eldorado Gold Announces Renewal of Normal Course Issuer Bid

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 27, 2019 - VANCOUVER, British Columbia,-- Eldorado Gold Corporation (“Eldorado”, “the Company” or “We”) today announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) has accepted for filing the Company’s Notice in respect of a normal course issuer bid (the “NCIB”) to be transacted through the facilities of the TSX and also through alternate Canadian trading systems. Pursuant to the NCIB, Eldorado may purchase up to 1,450,000 of its common shares (the “Shares”) representing. [more...]

Jul 27, 2019 7:42 AM ET

K92 Mining Inc. Announces $18,000,600 Bought Deal Financing

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 27, 2019 - TORONTO,-- K92 Mining Inc. (“K92” or the “Company”) (“K92” or “KNT” or the “Company”) (TSXV: KNT; OTCQB: KNTNF) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Clarus Securities Inc. as lead underwriter and sole bookrunner on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters (collectively, the “Underwriters”) to purchase, on a bought deal private placement basis, 9,474,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the “Common Shares”) at a. [more...]

Jul 27, 2019 6:58 AM ET

Adcore Announces up to $5 Million Contract with Australia and New Zealand’s Largest Experiential Travel Site

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 27, 2019 - TORONTO, ON Adcore Inc. (the “Corporation”) (TSXV: ADCO) the parent company of Podium Advertising Technologies Ltd. d/b/a ADCORE (“ADCORE”), a leading provider of machine-learning powered advertising technologies used by digital advertisers to enhance and maximize their Search Engine Marketing (“SEM”), today announced that is has secured a contract for all digital media across search, display and social from Australia and New Zealand’s number one site for travel experiences, Experience Oz. The contract. [more...]

Jul 27, 2019 6:30 AM ET

OpSec Security Teams with Consero for Brand Protection & Anti-Counterfeiting Executive Roundtable

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 27, 2019 - LANCASTER, Pa., -- OpSec Security, the global leader in anti-counterfeiting and brand protection solutions, has partnered with Consero in sponsoring their exclusive Brand Protection & Anti-Counterfeiting Executive Roundtable. Consero Group is an international leader in creating high-level, invitation-only events for senior executives. Since its inception in 2010, the company has hosted over 200 events in the U.S. and Europe across a variety of industries. Breaking the traditional conference model, Consero event. [more...]

Jul 27, 2019 6:10 AM ET

Owl Cyber Defense Appoints Brian Romansky as Chief Technology Officer to Lead Advanced Technology Development

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 27, 2019 - Danbury, CT, -- Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC (“Owl”), the global market leader in data diode network cybersecurity solutions, announced today the appointment of Brian Romansky as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this role, Romansky will lead the strategic development of advanced technology while keeping a finger on the pulse of customer insights and new applications to achieve business growth and product differentiation in various markets. He will also oversee the. [more...]

Jul 26, 2019 6:35 AM ET

New York City moves to protect citizens’ location data

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 26, 2019 - New York City is considering a law that could stop cellphone carriers and smartphone app vendors from selling their location data. The bill would ban anyone from collecting and sharing location data from mobile phones in the city, imposing harsh penalties for violators. It says: It is unlawful for a mobile application developer or a telecommunications carrier to share a customer’s location data where such location data was collected while the customer’s. [more...]

Jul 26, 2019 6:30 AM ET

Android Spyware Has Ties to Election Interference

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 26, 2019 - Recently revealed surveillance-ware comes from a consultant with close ties to Russia's GRU who was sanctioned by the US for election-tampering. A newly discovered Android malware strain has been tied to a US-sanctioned contractor with close connections with Russia's GRU. According to researchers at Lookout, who found and dubbed the malware as Monokle, is able to steal personal information from an infected device and send it to any of. [more...]

Jul 26, 2019 6:25 AM ET

Opinion: An Unexpected Market on the Brink of Explosive Growth (Get in While You Can!)

iCrowdNewswire - Jul 26, 2019 - I am continuously trying to improve on living in the present. It is a trait I know is vital to happiness and success as a husband, dad, and with all other relationships in my life. The reason I am trying to improve my ability to be present is because my whole life I have had the natural tendency to be a forward thinker. This forward thinking can be focused on. [more...]