Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced several enhancements to its single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge product FortiSASE that enables additional deployment flexibility and new secure access capabilities for digital resources across private applications, software as a service, and the wider internet. The enhancements cater to the rise of hybrid workforces. A recent Fortinet survey found that 55% of ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today published its 2023 State of Cloud-Native Security Report, an annual report that reveals insights on cloud adoption growth, migration challenges and top security threats. The findings, based on a survey of 2,500 global C-level executives, information technology leaders, developers and security practitioners, found, among other things, that cloud adoption has changed ...

Data stolen in a ransomware attack on the City of Oakland in February has been released online after the city refused to pay the ransom demanded. The ransomware attack occured on Feb. 8, knocking some of the city’s information technology systems offline. A state of emergency was then declared on Feb. 16 following what the ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a new strategic alliance to assist organizations in preventing, detecting and responding to cyberthreats with frictionless and cost-effective offerings. The new strategic alliance, which includes targeted offerings for businesses of all sizes, allows organizations to manage cyberthreats and protect their endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data. The collaboration ...

German and Ukrainian police announced today that they have arrested two individuals believed to be members of the DoppelPaymer ransomware group following raids on multiple locations in February. The operation was part of a multinational effort that included the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Dutch Police, along ...

Cybersecurity training startup RangeForce Inc. today announced that it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand its product line. Energy Impact Partners LLC and Paladin Capital Group L.P. led the Series B round, with KPN Ventures BV, Lapa Capital Partners LLC, Lanx Capital Management LLC and Cisco Investments Inc. also participating. Including the new funding, RangeForce has ...

The rise of predictive artificial intelligence and chatbots such as OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT has been well-documented, but not so well-documented is a concurrent rise in scams trying to take advantage of the hype in the sector. A new report from researchers at  S.C. Bitdefender SRL today shines some light on the rise of highly sophisticated investment ...

U.K. retailer WH Smith PLC has been struck by a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of some company data. The form of cyberattack was not disclosed, with the company only describing it as a “cyber security incident” in a notice today to the London Stock Exchange. WH Smith ticked off the standard response list ...

Artificial intelligence is the hottest trend in years, and although many companies in the space are startups, publicly listed companies specializing in AI are also benefiting. One such company is C3ai Inc., which saw its shares surge in late trading today after it exceeded expectations in its latest quarterly earnings report. For its third fiscal ...

Shares in Elastic N.V. dropped slightly in late trading after the enterprise-grade search software company reported beats in its latest quarterly earnings but missed on outlook. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Elastic reported earnings before costs such as stock compensation of 17 cents a share, up from a loss of 12 cents per share ...