Shares in F5 Inc. surged in late trading today after the application security firm reported beats in both earnings and revenue in its latest quarter. For its fiscal third quarter, F5 reported earnings per share of $3.21 before costs such as stock compensation, up from $2.57 in the same quarter of last year, on revenue of $703 ...

Kubernetes platform provider D2iQ Inc. today announced DKP AI Navigator, a new integrated artificial intelligence chatbot designed to give organizations the power to overcome the Kubernetes skills gap. Pitched as ushering in a “new era in cloud-native computing,” the natural-language AI assistant is aimed at simplifying Kubernetes management and enabling DevOps teams to solve the most complex problems ...

A new report from IBM Security today finds that the relentless rise in data breach costs continues unabated in 2023, with the global average data breach cost increasing to $4.45 million, up 15% over the last three years. The 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report is based on an in-depth analysis of real-world data breaches experienced by ...

Twitter lost its iconic blue bird logo as soon Monday after owner Elon Musk announced that an X logo would replace the logo as part of his long-term plan to turn the microblogging app into an “everything app.” Musk changed the legal name of Twitter to X Corp. in April, merging the assets of Twitter ...

A new blog post today from application security testing firm Checkmarx Ltd. details the first known open-source supply chain attacks against the banking sector. An open-source software supply chain attack is a cybersecurity threat where attackers infiltrate software systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in the open-source components the software relies on. In the first half of 2023, several attacks ...

More than 200,000 OpenAI LP credentials have been discovered for sale on the dark web, according to new research. Bleeping Computer reported Wednesday that the figure came from researchers at security company Flare Systems Inc., which analyzed dark web forums and marketplaces, shady sites reachable with special software. It found that OpenAI credentials are among the latest ...

Kevin Mitnick, who was the world’s best-known hacker for a period before becoming a well-respected white-hat hacker, has passed away following a battle with pancreatic cancer at age 59. Born in Los Angeles in 1963, Mitnick had an early history in hacking, changing the grades of his friends on a Los Angeles school computer system ...

A cyberattack on cloud directory-as-a-service provider JumpCloud Inc. that first came to light earlier this month has been attributed to a North Korean hacking group. According to a blog post from JumpCloud last week, the attack was first detected as “anomalous activity on an internal orchestration system,” which was traced back to a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign by a ...

React-based product onboarding and adoption solution startup Frigade Inc. has raised $2.7 million in new funding to grow its library of onboarding experiences for developers and support additional web software development kits for business-to-business software-as-a-service companies. Founded in 2022, Frigade offers a product onboarding and adoption solution for React. Also known as React.js or ReactJS, React is an open-source ...

Privacy management software startup Osano Inc. today announced the launch of the multilevel Osano Privacy Maturity Model alongside a new Data Mapping product designed to help organizations understand where personal information is being stored, mitigate risks and grow mature privacy programs. The company’s Privacy Program Maturity Model serves as a framework and guide for organizations to evaluate ...