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 ...

Cybersecurity solutions and services provider Specter Ops Inc. today announced that it has raised $25 million in new funding to accelerate the adoption of its BloodHound Enterprise product and expand research and development initiatives. SpectorOps, as it prefers to be called, was founded in 2017 with the belief that “only with true knowledge of how ...

Salesforce Inc. today announced new capabilities and compliance certifications across Customer 360 for Public Sector that help government agencies modernize their services. The new capabilities leverage Salesforce’s customer relationship management tools, artificial intelligence, automation and data tools to help government agencies boost staff productivity, reducing costs and improving outcomes. The new release includes prebuilt, government-specific capabilities ...

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 ...