Updated with comment from SolarWinds Cybersecurity practitioners are expressing concern after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued both SolarWinds Corp. and its Chief Information Security Officer Timothy Brown for fraud relating to the hack of the company first disclosed in December 2020. The hack, which was attributed to Russian government-linked hackers, saw the insertion ...

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. pleasantly surprised investors with its fiscal third-quarter earnings today, reporting beats in revenue and earnings. For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, Commvault reported adjusted earnings per share of 70 cents, up from 10 cents in the same quarter of last year, on revenue of $201 million, up 7% year-over-year. Analysts ...

Human insights platform company UserTesting Inc. today announced new enhancements and capabilities to its platform designed to simplify the process of reaching niche, hard-to-find audiences. The new announcements include product integrations with Canva Pty. Ltd. and FullStory Inc. to help organizations maximize the value of human insight and a new Insights Services offering that allows organizations to ...

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced a new partnership with security orchestration, automation and response or SOAR company D3 Security Management Systems Inc. to automate threat management and incident response in LogRhythm’s Axon SEIM. The partnership brings together LogRhythm Axon SIEM, or security information and event management, and D3 Smart SOAR’s incident enrichment and response capabilities ...

Apple Inc. announced a new range of MacBook Pros this evening at an event called “Scary Fast,” along with debuting new three-nanometer-based M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max chips. The new chips, the latest in Apple’s in-house designed chips, offer up to 80% faster performance than Apple’s M1 chips. The new Arm-based systems-on-a-chip are the first ...

In an increasing sign of consolidation in the cybersecurity market, SailPoint Technologies Inc. today closed its acquisition of endpoint management, access management and process automation company Osirium Ltd. and Proofpoint announced a deal to acquire enterprise security firm Tessian Ltd. Sailpoint’s acquisition of Osirium was announced in August, with Sailpoint reportedly paying $8.3 million for the ...

Data security startup Immuta Inc. today announced a new product for automated tagging and classification on supported cloud data platforms. Called Immuta Discover, the new product enables data teams to establish and maintain highly accurate metadata for data access control, monitoring and regulatory compliance. The product automatically and continuously discovers structured data in cloud data platforms and also leverages ...

A new report released today by phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. finds that there has been a whopping 1,265% increase in phishing attacks in the 12 months from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the end of the third quarter of 2023. The increase was the lede in the SlashNext State of Phishing 2023 report, which was based ...

A new report from Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 warns of a new active campaign targeting exposed Amazon Web Services Inc. identity and access management credentials within public GitHub repositories. Dubbed “EleKtra-Leak,” the campaign is described as both sophisticated and concerning, the latter because of the widespread use of AWS services across the globe. EleKtra-Leak ...

A new report from cybersecurity company Inky Technology Corp. released today warns that bad actors are targeting streaming platforms amid the Hollywood actor’s strike. The Hollywood writers and actors’ strike, which started in July, has led to significant financial issues for many in the entertainment industry. Although writers have since returned to work, actors continue to be ...