The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a New York man on Wednesday on suspicion of running BreachForums, the popular internet forum that has become a favorite among hackers to share their exploits on the regular internet. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, known online as “Pompompurin” or “Pom” has been a reasonably high-profile hacker who has been ...

Independent Living Systems LLC, a Florida-based healthcare and managed care solutions provider, has suffered a data breach with the records of some 4.2 million individuals potentially stolen. In a statement March 14, the company said it experienced an “incident involving the inaccessibility of certain computer systems on its network” last July 5. ILS hired outside cybersecurity ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced it will provide post-quantum cryptography for free by default to all customers to help secure their websites, application programming interfaces, cloud tools and remote employees against future threats. Cloudflare made the commitment ahead of the 2023 Summit for Democracy in support of a more responsive and resilient internet. As part ...

The U.K. government today banned TikTok on all government electronic devices, following in the footsteps of similar moves from the European Commission, Canada and the U.S. House of Representatives. Not surprisingly, security was named as the reason behind the move. The U.K. Cabinet Office ordered a security review that considered the potential vulnerability of government ...

Kubernetes operations and cost management startup Cast AI Group Inc. today announced that it has raised $20 million in new funding to take advantage of the significant opportunity as the market for cloud-native solutions is experiencing hypergrowth. Founded in 2019, Cast AI offers a cloud optimization platform that it claims has cut cloud bills in half for Amazon ...

Cybersecurity training services company Hoxhunt Ltd. today released the findings of a new study into the effectiveness of ChatGPT-generated phishing attacks, and though the technology continues to improve, humans actually delivered better results. The study analyzed over 53,000 email users in over 100 countries, comparing the win rate of simulated phishing attacks created by human ...

Rarely does history repeat itself so quickly, but a report today suggesting that the Biden administration has demanded that ByteDance Ltd. sell their stake in TikTok or face being banned in the U.S. comes just two years after the Trump administration tried to do nearly the same thing. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the ...

Payment technology company Stripe Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional $6.5 billion in funding on a $50 billion valuation to provide liquidity to current and former employees so it can address tax obligations related to equity awards. New and existing investors participated in the Series I round, including Andreessen Horowitz LLC, Baillie Gifford & Co., ...

Shares in PagerDuty Inc. rose in late trading after the application observability platform provider topped earnings and revenue estimates in its most recent quarter. For its fourth quarter that ended Jan. 31, PagerDuty reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of eight cents a share on revenue of $101 million, up 29% year-over-year. Analysts had ...

Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a range of new security services and solutions designed to help organizations protect against threats, respond to attacks and secure their devices, systems and clouds. Leading the announcements is Managed Detection and Response Pro Plus, a fully managed security operations solution that helps organizations prevent, respond and recover from security threats. ...