Information technology services management company Edgio Inc. today announced the availability of a new bot management solution that mitigates a wide range of evolving malicious bots while providing observability into good bots. Edgio’s Advanced Bot Manager works by leveraging massive amounts of data drawn from the company’s global deployment and then applies machine learning to detect bots ...

Low-code security automation company Swimlane LLC today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. and said its Swimlane Turbine product is now a cloud-native platform. The partnership sees Swimlane’s low-code automation platform Turbine now integrating with Amazon Security Lake. Security Lake is a purpose-built security data lake from AWS that helps organizations aggregate, manage ...

New research from content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. finds that application and application programming interface attacks jumped 137% through 2022. The research, “Slipping through the Security Gaps: The Rise of Application and API Attacks Against Organizations,” finds that application and API attacks are growing in both frequency and complexity as ...

NCR Corp., best known for its retail point-of-sale and automatic teller machine technology, has been struck by a ransomware attack, causing outages to some of its services. In a statement today, NCR said it detected a “cyber ransomware incident” on April 13 in a single data center, resulting in an outage that affected the “functionality for ...

Nine additional states have joined the U.S. Department of Justice and eight previous states in a lawsuit against Google LLC alleging that the search giant’s advertising business breaks antitrust law. The lawsuit, first announced in January, charges that Google uses its position as a major provider of sell-side and buy-side advertising tools to harm market competition. ...

A new report from software supply chain management startup Lineaje finds an inherent risk of software supply chains being compromised when using the most popular open-source products and dependencies. “What’s in Your Open-Source Software?” was based on Lineage Data Labs researchers analyzing 41,989 open-source components embedded in the top 44 popular projects of the Apache Software Foundation across ...

Google LLC has released a security update to its popular Chrome browser that addresses a vulnerability that’s being actively exploited in the wild. The Chrome update addresses the vulnerability designated CVE-2023-2033, which Google describes as a “Type Confusion in V8” vulnerability discovered by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 11. Although Google did ...

The Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law today announced two new initiatives aimed at creating a more favorable legal, policy and business environment for good-faith security research and vulnerability disclosure. The first initiative, the Hacking Policy Council, is a new group that aims to make technology safer and more transparent by facilitating best practices for vulnerability ...

The European Data Protection Board today announced that it has set up a task force to investigate ChatGPT, a day after Italy rescinded a ban on the generative artificial intelligence service following privacy concerns. The EDPB is an independent body within the European Union whose purpose is to ensure the consistent application of the EU’s General ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today arrested a 21-year-old Air Force National Guard member over the leak of classified documents. Jack Teixeira, an Airman First Class with the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested on allegations that he distributed secret files from the Pentagon that exposed sensitive data about U.S. ...