Networking giant Juniper Networks Inc. is laying off about 440 employees globally at a cost of $59 million. The disclosure was made in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was signed off on by the company on Sept. 29 but was foreshadowed alongside Juniper’s quarterly earnings reports on July 29. Along ...

A hacker on the infamous hacking site BreachForums is advertising DNA profiles stolen in a credential-stuffing attack on genetic testing company 23andMe Holding Co. for sale. The listing, by a user named “Golem,” offers “DNA profiles of millions, ranging from the world’s top business magnates to dynasties often whispered about in conspiracy theories,” suggesting Ashkenazi ...

Reusable rocket startup Stoke Space Technologes Inc. today announced that it has raised $100 million in new funding to finance the development of its first-stage rocket engine, the orbital version of its reusable second-stage rocket engine, and pay for new construction at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Founded in 2019 by former SpaceX Inc. ...

A little over a month since a multinational task force headed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Dutch police claimed to have taken down prolific malware and botnet operator Qakbot, the threat actors behind Qakbot are back, but in a surprising twist, it appears they never went away to begin with. The return of ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of a new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac that promises faster speeds and lower memory usage. The new app was announced in March and based on user feedback, is not an updated version of the previous apps but was rebuilt from the ground up. The goal ...

Automated machine identity company AppViewX Inc. today launched a new comprehensive automated certificate lifecycle management solution for Kubernetes environments that prevents outages and reduces security vulnerabilities. Called AppViewX KUBE+, the new solution provides complete certificate visibility, end-to-end automation and policy control that is said to simplify certificate lifecycle management to secure containerized workloads at scale while supporting ...

A newly discovered high-severity Linux vulnerability that has been present on many Linux distributions for at least two years could allow threat actors to run malicious code with elevated privileges. Discovered by researchers at the Qualys Threat Research Unit, the vulnerability has been dubbed “Looney Tunables” in reference to the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable involved in ...

BlackBerry Ltd. announced today that it plans to split its business into two — one company for its cybersecurity business and another for its internet of things business, which it aims to take public in an initial public offering next year. The decision to split its existing business came after a review of its portfolio ...

Cloud incident response company Mitiga Security Inc. today announced that Cisco Investments, the investment arm of Cisco Systems Inc., has made a strategic investment in the company to support greater market adoption among enterprises seeking modern security solutions for their cloud and software-as-a-service environments. Founded in 2019, Mitiga offers a cloud and SaaS incident platform called IR2 ...

Yahoo Inc. announced today that it has spun out its enterprise artificial intelligence scaling engine Vespa as an independent company to broaden the accessibility of its technology platform. Vespa was created by Yahoo in 2005 following the acquisition of a small search company called AlltheWeb in 2003. The software was originally used to power Yahoo’s ...