Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. plunged in late trading after the cybersecurity company missed estimates for annual recurring revenue and outlook for its latest earnings. For its third quarter that ended Oct. 31, CrowdStrike reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $96.1 million, or 40 cents per share, compared with $41.1 million, or 17 ...

Intel Corp.-backed multicloud security firm Fortanix Inc. today announced that its Data Security Manager is now integrated with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s External Key Store. The integration enables organizations that deal with regulated data to run workloads on AWS by segregating data on the AWS platform from encryption keys. The new integration is said to give AWS customers complete ...

A new report from PitchBook Data Inc. finds mixed venture capital results in the emerging tech sector amid ongoing market disruption and 40-year high inflation. The Q3 2022 Emerging Tech Indicator report tracked 153 early and seed-stage deals that involved the top 15 VC firms, relative to 5,997 total early and seed-stage VC deals, to ...

Security awareness training company KnowBe4 Inc. today announced a new service application designed to empower users by introducing security awareness and compliance training on the go. The new KnowBe4 Mobile Learner App brings security awareness and compliance training to mobile devices at no additional cost to customers. The new app enables end users to complete their ...

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., the Irish subsidiary of Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc., was been fined €265 million ($274 million) today by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for breaching the European Union General Data Protection Regulation. The commission launched an investigation in April 2021 following media reports that a collected dataset of Facebook personal data had ...

Some 5.4 million records belonging to Twitter Inc. users that were stolen in December have been released for free on a well-known hacking forum. The breach first emerged in July when a threat actor offered the 5.4 million records for sale for $30,000 on Breach Forums, the successor site to RaidForums. The latter was shut ...

Apple Inc. may be facing a shortage of 6 million iPhone 14 Pro smartphones this year amid ongoing turmoil at the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. factory in Zhengzhou, China. Referencing people familiar with assembly operations, Vlad Savov at Bloomberg describes the situation at the plant as fluid and that the estimate of lost production ...

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced the availability of FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall on Amazon Web Services Inc., a managed next-generation service specifically designed for AWS environments. FortiGate CNF incorporates FortiGuard artificial intelligence-powered Security Services for real-time detection of and protection against malicious external and internal threats. Underpinned by FortiOS, Fortinet’s network operating system, the service is said ...

Police have arrested 142 people as part of a global operation to take down “iSpoof,” an online spoofing service that allowed cybercriminals to mask their phone numbers as belonging to a trusted organization. Operation Elaborate was launched in June 2021 and involved Scotland Yard, European Union law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation ...

Google Project Zero, a group of security analysts employed by Google LLC to find vulnerabilities, warns that Android phone makers have failed to provide patches to several vulnerabilities discovered earlier this year in the Mali graphics processing unit. The five medium-severity security flaws were found in Arm Ltd.’s Mali GPU driver in June and July. ...