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MIDDLETON, Wis.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPB), a leading global branded consumer products and home essentials company focused on driving innovation and providing exceptional customer service, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Spectrum Brands, Inc. (“Spectrum Brands”), will sell $500.0 million aggregate principal amount of 3.875% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “Notes”) at a price of 100% of the par value (the “Offering”). The Offering was increased from the previously announced $400.0 million offering of Notes.

The Notes are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and to non-U.S. persons…

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, independent game studio Lucid Sight, developer of games such as MLB Champions and CSC featuring Star Trek, has acquired the popular open-source multiplayer game engine Colyseus. Lucid Sight will be taking over the Colyseus brand, GitHub, and all social and support channels. Lucid Sight will also be launching a cloud-hosted service to further support Colyseus developers. The creator of Colyseus, Endel Dreyer, will be joining the Lucid Sight team.

Lucid Sight will continue to add to the Colyseus open-source library of features in conjunction with the open-source community. “Downloaded by over 250,000 developers and studios, Colyseus is at the core of thousands of multiplayer projects and games. Over 3,000 developers are active in Colyseus’s…

As the global population is thrust into yet another year of uncertainty, cybersecurity teams are preparing for new threats they may face next. They are focusing on how to best secure businesses, their users and their data from whatever is up threat actors’ sleeves.

Remote working looks set to stay in place for the majority of organizations globally. Security teams have now put in place robust strategies to protect against this widened attack surface, but cyber-criminals will never stop looking for new ways to adapt to this and target businesses.

Social Engineering is Here to Stay

As employees remain an organization’s main perimeter, cyber-criminals will continue to shift their focus to social engineering attacks to trick individuals. With the vast majority of cyber-attacks…

1Gbps Broadband Being Extended to Over 800 Rural Customers within the Next Two Years

BREVARD, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comporium will bring faster broadband speeds to areas of Transylvania county with a $2.8 million grant from North Carolina’s Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Program. Altogether, the improvements will require over $7 million.

The project includes the construction of 105 miles of fiber optic cable that will provide service to over 800 customers using a partnership arrangement with Haywood Electric Membership Corporation (EMC). An anticipated start date for construction is still being determined, but once it begins, Comporium expects the construction process to take approximately two years.

“Access to broadband is more important than…