Microsoft Corp. customers were none too pleased today after the company suffered a widespread outage that resulted in services including Azure, Teams and Outlook being unavailable for nearly three hours. The outage resulted from a planned update to the Microsoft Wide Area Network that started at 2 a.m. EST. According to an Azure status update, ...

Shares in Tesla Inc. surged in late trading today after the electric car and solar panel maker reported a strong beat in its latest earnings report. For the quarter that ended Dec. 30, Tesla reported earnings of $1.19 per share, on revenue of $24.32 billion, up 37% year-over-year. Analysts had expected earnings of $1.13 a ...

AtomicJar Inc., the company behind the open-source library Testcontainers, today announced that it has raised $25 million in new funding to expand data support and improve the shift-left development experience with Testcontainers Cloud. Founded in 2021 by the team behind Testcontainers, AtomicJar offers an integrated testing platform that enables developers to build databases and web frameworks. ...

A new report from Proofpoint Inc. today details a revamped state-sponsored North Korean threat actor that has been actively targeting cryptocurrency holders and exchanges using new methodologies. Dubbed TA444, the group has been active since at least 2017 and in 2022 turned its attention to cryptocurrency. It has overlaps with public activity from groups that include APT38, ...

In a rather novel excuse for a ticketing company with an already bad reputation, Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. today claimed that a cyberattack caused the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco last November. TicketMaster made the claim at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into competition issues in the ticket industry. TicketMaster currently holds over a 70% market share ...

GoTo Technologies USA Inc., the parent company of password manager LastPass US LP, advised customers today that hackers have obtained encrypted backups and an encryption key to access some of them. In a blog post to customers, GoTo said an investigation into a “security incident” in November has found that a threat actor exfiltrated encrypted ...

Researchers at S.C. Bitdefender SRL today warned of a new wave of attacks using known vulnerabilities to target Microsoft Exchange. The researchers started to notice an increase in attacks using ProxyNotShell/OWASSRF exploits to target on-premises Microsoft Exchange deployments at the end of November. The Server-Side Request Forgery attacks allow an attacker to send a crafted request from a ...

Automated cloud migration company Next Pathway Inc. today announced new code translation software designed to assist customers in moving legacy workloads from data warehouses and data lakes to the cloud. Designed for intelligent and automated cloud migrations, Next Pathway’s SHIFT Cloud allows customers to upload, analyze and translate their entire legacy code base, according to the company. Support ...

A new report today from asset visibility and security company Armis Inc. finds that organizations are unprepared to handle cyberwarfare amid growing global geopolitical tensions. Cyber warfare has long been warned of but came to the fore last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite the increasing attention to cyber warfare, the report found that one-third ...

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is forging ahead with its security-related company buying spree, entering into an agreement to acquire publicly listed Canadian digital forensic software firm Magnet Forensics Inc. for CAD $1.8 billion ($1.3 billion). Founded in 2009, Magnet Forensics develops software solutions to assist forensic professionals in investigating cyberattacks and digital crimes. The ...