Cloud visibility and analytics company Gigamon Inc. today announced new cybersecurity innovations to its Deep Observability Pipeline with the release of its GigaVUE 6.4 software. The release includes the debut of Gigamon Precyption, a new feature that the company says will enable information technology and security organizations to gain unobscured visibility into encrypted traffic across virtual machine ...

The Associated Press Corp. is warning that users of the AP Stylebook may have been targeted in a phishing campaign following a data breach involving the theft of data from an old AP Stylebook website maintained by Stylebooks.com. The AP Stylebook is a style and use guide for American English grammar used by journalists and ...

MGM Resorts International Inc., best known as an operator of casinos in Las Vegas, has been forced to shut down some casino and hotel systems following what the company described as a “cybersecurity issue.” The incident began on Sunday local time and affected systems, including websites, online reservations, ATMs and credit card machines. The company ...

Apple Inc. has released urgent security updates for its suite of operating systems after revealing two critical new vulnerabilities that researchers say were exploited by Israeli spyware maker NSO Group Ltd. to install spyware on devices. NSO Group, with its Pegasus spyware, has been one of the most controversial cybersecurity companies of recent times. Pegasus is ...

The founders of Argo AI LLC, a self-driving car startup backed by Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG that had raised $3.6 billion in funding before it was shut down in October, are back with a new autonomous truck business called Stack AV Co. Stack AV launched today with a focus on revolutionizing the way businesses ...

Shares in Smartsheet Inc. were up by nearly 6% in late trading today after the management platform provider reported strong second-quarter results. For the quarter that ended July 31, Smartsheet reported adjusted earnings per share of 16 cents, up from a loss of 10 cents per share in the same quarter of last year, on revenue of $235.6 million, ...

Operational management platform startup Certa announced today that it has raised $35 million in new funding to bolster its go-to-market efforts, expand its reach into new high-growth markets and accelerate adoption. Founded in 2019, Certa, officially Opinr Inc., offers an operational management platform that provides a fully integrated suite of products for third-party lifecycle management. The platform ...

A new report from cybersecurity services company Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd. warns of a largely unknown threat actor that is running a “phishing empire” targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. The group, called “W3LL,” runs a hidden underground market known as the W3LL Store that serves a closed community of at least 500 threat actors. On the store, the ...

Microsoft Corp. has revealed that alleged Chinese hackers who breached email accounts belonging to U.S. government agencies, including the State Department, earlier this year did so by compromising the account of a Microsoft engineer. The details were revealed in a post-mortem published today by the Microsoft Security Response Center, which did a deep dive into ...

Israeli cloud security company Upwind Security Inc. today launched out of stealth mode and announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to help enterprises secure their cloud-native infrastructure. Founded by Amiram Shachar and the founding partners from Spot, a compute management company acquired by NetApp Inc. for $450 million in 2020, Upwind offers ...