IMPV IMPERVA, INC.

--- - Enterprise security business Imperva Inc. on Monday named Pam Murphy, a former chief operating officer at Infor USA Inc. and longtime executive at Oracle Corp., as its new CEO. She takes a job that was vacated by former CEO Chris Hylen, who left in October after leading the $2.1 billion buyout of Redwood City-based Imperva in 2018 by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

--- - Imperva plans to integrate Distil Networks' technology into its existing bot management product. Imperva, the cybersecurity provideracquired by Thoma Bravo in January, has signed an agreement to buy Distil Networks, a bot management provider. - Imperva said the acquisition reinforces its leadership in...

--- - Facebook has fixed a bug that let any website pull information from a user’s profile — including their ‘likes’ and interests — without that user’s knowledge. - In other words, a website could quietly siphon off certain bits of data from your logged-in Facebook profile in another tab. - "“This allowed information to cross over domains — essentially meaning that if a user visits a particular website, an attacker can open Facebook and can collect information about the user and their friends,” said Masas." - The malicious website could open several Facebook search queries in a new tab, and run queries that could return “yes” or “no” responses — such as if a Facebook user likes a page, for example. - It’s the latest in a string of data exposures and bugs that have put Facebook user data at risk after the Cambridge Analytica scandal this year, which saw a political data firm vacuum up profiles on 87 million users to use for election profiling — including users’ likes and interests.