A successful breach of videoconferencing and business phone company 3CX Ltd. first reported last month was caused by a software supply chain attack on a third party, Google LLC’s Mandiant has revealed for the first time. The 3CX breach was first detected by customers about March 22 but only came to light a week later ...

The nonprofit Center for Internet Security Inc. today announced the launch of a new alliance to help advance security and resilience for the broader technology ecosystem, with an emphasis on the public sector. The CIS and Google Cloud Alliance seeks to address the problem wherein public sector organizations are particularly susceptible to cyberattacks because of their limited ...

Cybersecurity startup Halcyon Tech Inc. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its cyber resilience platform. SYN Ventures led the Series A round, with Dell Technologies Capital and Corner Ventures also participating. Including the new round, Halycon has raised $70 million to date, according to data from ...

Shares in Tesla Inc. dropped by over 6% in late trading after the electric car and solar panel maker reported slightly lower-than-expected revenue and earnings in its fiscal first quarter. For the quarter that ended March 31, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 85 cents on revenue of $23.33 billion. Analysts were expecting 86 ...

Shares in F5 Inc. dropped in late trading today after the application security firm announced layoffs and reported lower-than-expected guidance. The multicloud security and application delivery firm did, however, top estimates in its latest quarterly earnings report. For its fiscal second quarter, F5 reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $154 million, or $2.53 per ...

Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub today announced two new tools aimed at helping developers ensure the integrity of their projects and secure the software supply chain. The first new tool, private vulnerability reporting, is now generally available and designed to help open-source maintainers and security researchers embrace best practices to report and fix vulnerabilities. The private collaboration channel ...

Application programming interface security startup Cequence Security Inc. announced today that Hewlett-Packard Pathfinder and Prosperity7 Ventures have made strategic investments in the company. Founded in 2014, Cequence offers a scalable software platform designed to protect customers’ web, mobile and API applications from malicious bot attacks. The platform offers web and runtime API visibility, security risk monitoring and behavioral ...

Dell Inc. announced today that it is building a zero-trust security ecosystem that brings together more than 30 leading technology and security companies to create a unified solution across infrastructure platforms, applications, clouds and services. The new ecosystem seeks to address the challenge of implementing the seven pillars of zero trust. Dell argues that though ...

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced a new managed extended detection and response service that unifies human expertise with AI-powered automation and threat intelligence. CrowdStrike Falcon Complete XDR, built on the company’s Falcon platform, includes 24/7 expert management, threat hunting, monitoring and end-to-end remediation across all key attack surfaces to close the cybersecurity skills gap. With human expertise ...

Data stolen from network infrastructure provider CommScope Holding Co. Inc. has been published on the dark web, the shady corner of the internet reachable through special software, following a successful ransomware attack. The first anyone became aware that CommScope had been targeted was when the Vice Society ransomware gang published the stolen data on their ...