Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. revealed today that it has managed to detect and mitigate a 26 million-request-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack, the largest such attack on record for HTTPS, a secure way to send a web server and a browser. The strike, which took place last week, targeted a customer website using Cloudflare’s free plan. ...

According to multiple reports, U.S. technology company and defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. is in talks to acquire some or all of the controversial Israeli spyware maker NSO Group Ltd. The Guardian reported today that the negotiations involve L3Harris acquiring only NSO’s surveillance technology and possibly transferring some NSO personnel to L3Harris. Other reports, such as ...

The Rust Foundation, a foundation set up to support the development of the increasingly popular open-source Rust programming language, today announced the first recipients of awards for its inaugural Community Grants Program. The Rust Foundation Community Grants Program is a mechanism to provide funds to the Rust development community to support their work. Financial support granted ...

Cybersecurity company Trustwave Holdings Inc., owned by Singtel Holdings Inc. since 2015, today announced a new managed detection and response offering built to improve threat visibility, rapidly detect and respond to threats, and boost the overall cybersecurity resilience of organizations. The new Trustwave MDR and Trustwave MDR Elite offer 24×7 monitoring of hybrid multicloud environments ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 today identified new, difficult-to-detect remote-access malware used by the Gallium advanced persistent threat group. The Gallium APT group is believed to be a Chinese state-sponsored group and has a reputation for targeting telecommunications companies in Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa. In the last year, Gallium has expanded its targeting beyond telcos ...

Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has disclosed a data breach that compromised the information of some 70,000 patients at subsidiary Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington. In a June 3 notice to patients, Kaiser Permanente described the data breach as a “security incident” that involved unauthorized access on April 5. The company said it discovered that ...

New machine learning and artificial intelligence features in Microsoft Corp.’s Teams promise to improve the sound quality of meetings and calls dramatically, even in challenging situations. The changes seek to address issues such as background noise, poor acoustics and quality when users are not using a headset. On that last in particular, problems often arise ...

A recently discovered form of malware that infects Linux systems uses sophisticated techniques to hide and steal credentials. As detailed today by researchers at BlackBerry Ltd., the previously undetectable “Symbiote” malware acts in a parasitic nature in that it needs to infect other running processes to inflict damage on infected machines. Symbiote is not a standalone ...

Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd., the company behind the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST), is now facing multiple investigations in two countries following the spectacular collapse of the coin in May. The Financial Times reported Wednesday that South Korean law enforcement agencies are investigating allegations that an employee of Terraform Labs embezzled an undisclosed amount of the company’s ...

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s investigation into Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot feature has been upgraded in a move that could potentially result in a recall. The NHTSA investigation into Telsa’s self-driving car feature was launched in August following 11 identified crashes where Tesla vehicles on Autopilot crashed into stational emergency vehicles. “Most incidents took ...