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 ...

Large language model data processing startup Unstructured Technologies Inc. has raised $25 million in new funding to expand its operations and business reach. Founded in 2022 by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst Brian Raymond, Unstructured offers a platform that allows companies to convert their unstructured internal data into formats that are compatible with large language models, ...

Shares in Tesla Inc. dropped by over 4% in late trading despite the electric car and solar panel maker beating analyst expectations in its latest quarterly results. For its fiscal second quarter that ended June 30, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 90 cents, up 20%, on revenue of $24.93 billion, up 47% year-over-year. Analysts ...

A new report from cybersecurity training services company Hoxhunt Ltd. released today surprisingly finds that critical infrastructure employees are becoming more engaged in organizational security. The “Human Cyber-Risk Report: Critical Infrastructure” was compiled based on examining more than 15 million phishing simulations and actual email attacks reported in 2022 by 1.6 million individuals involved in security behavior change programs. The ...