Apple Inc. may be facing a shortage of 6 million iPhone 14 Pro smartphones this year amid ongoing turmoil at the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. factory in Zhengzhou, China. Referencing people familiar with assembly operations, Vlad Savov at Bloomberg describes the situation at the plant as fluid and that the estimate of lost production ...

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced the availability of FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall on Amazon Web Services Inc., a managed next-generation service specifically designed for AWS environments. FortiGate CNF incorporates FortiGuard artificial intelligence-powered Security Services for real-time detection of and protection against malicious external and internal threats. Underpinned by FortiOS, Fortinet’s network operating system, the service is said ...

Police have arrested 142 people as part of a global operation to take down “iSpoof,” an online spoofing service that allowed cybercriminals to mask their phone numbers as belonging to a trusted organization. Operation Elaborate was launched in June 2021 and involved Scotland Yard, European Union law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation ...

Google Project Zero, a group of security analysts employed by Google LLC to find vulnerabilities, warns that Android phone makers have failed to provide patches to several vulnerabilities discovered earlier this year in the Mali graphics processing unit. The five medium-severity security flaws were found in Arm Ltd.’s Mali GPU driver in June and July. ...

Microsoft Corp. is warning that a long-discontinued web server is being targeted by hackers to gain access to industrial control systems, primarily in India. As detailed Tuesday by the Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence unit, the attacks, first reported by Recorded Future in April, targeted web servers running Boa. If Boa web server doesn’t sound familiar, you’re not ...

Cybersecurity technology company Cybereason Inc. today issued a warning that an aggressive new ransomware campaign from the Black Basta ransomware group is targeting U.S. companies. Black Basta first emerged in April and is believed to be an offshoot of the infamous Conti ransomware gang, complete with using similar tactics. Black Basta data leak blogs, payment ...

A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office warns that there’s an urgent need to address cybersecurity risks to offshore oil and gas infrastructure. The findings came after GAO was asked to review the cybersecurity of the more than 1,600 U.S. offshore oil and gas facilities that produced significant amounts of domestic oil and ...

Shares in Autodesk Inc. dropped in late trading after the computer-aided design software company issued a lower-than-expected outlook in its latest earnings report. For the third quarter that ended Oct. 31, Autodesk reported earnings before costs such as stock compensation of $1.70 per share on revenue of $1.28 billion, up 14% year-over-year. The figures aligned with analyst ...

A new report today from email and collaboration security startup Perception Point Inc. finds that organizations are paying increasing amounts each year to address cybersecurity incidents. The Rise of Cyber Threats Against Email, Browsers and Emerging Cloud-Based Channels report, based on a survey conducted in conjunction with Osterman Research, evaluated the responses of security and information technology decision-makers ...

Security researchers have uncovered more than 1,500 apps leaking the Algolia application programming interface key and application ID, potentially exposing user data. Discovered by researchers at CloudSEK Information Security Pte. Ltd. and shared with Infosecurity Magazine today, 32 applications were found to have critical administrative secrets hardcoded, with 57 unique admin keys found so far. Algolia ...