When most people think about cyberattacks, they might think of phishing emails or hackers targeting company servers, but a new report explores how attackers are now targeting scanner notifications. Detailed today by Jeremy Fuchs, a researcher at cloud email and collaboration security firm Avanan Inc., a Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. company, attackers are spoofing ...

Argo AI LLC, a self-driving car startup backed by Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG that had raised $3.6 billion in funding, is shutting down, and its parts are being absorbed by both Ford and VW. TechCrunch reported that employees were told of the plan at an all-hands meeting today and that some people would receive ...

Seagate Technology Holdings PLC, the world’s largest maker of hard drives, today announced it’s laying off 8% of its workforce, about 3,000 employees, amid economic uncertainty and declining demand for its products. CNBC reported that the restructuring plans were announced after Seagate reported its latest quarterly financial results, missed analysts’ expectations for both revenue and earnings. ...

A new report today from phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. finds a significant increase in phishing attacks over the first six months of 2022 amid deepening cybercriminal activity and global issues such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Based on an analysis of billions of linked-based URLs,  attachments and natural language messages in email, mobile and ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Valence Security Inc. announced today that it has raised $25 million in new funding to help customers secure their software-as-a-service meshes from risk. Microsoft Corp.’s M12 venture fund led the Series A round with YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies Inc., Alumni Ventures and Michael Fey, former president of Symantec Corp., also participating. Including the ...

Mobileye Global Inc., the Intel Corp.-owned self-driving car technology company, is set to go public tomorrow, Oct. 26, at $21 per share in an initial public offering that had been expected by some to be priced at between $18 and $20 per share. Although some reports go as far as claiming that the higher-than-expected share price ...

Shares in Juniper Networks Inc. rose in late trading thanks to solid earnings in the company’s latest quarter. For the quarter than ended Sept. 30, Juniper reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $190.8 million, or 58 cents per share, up 26% year-over-year. Revenue rose 19% from a year ago, to $1.4 ...

Share in F5 Inc. dropped in late trading today after the network traffic management and security company predicted lower-than-expected earnings in its latest quarterly report. For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, F5 reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $158 million, or $2.62 per share, down from $185 million or $3.01 per share ...

Cybersecurity for machine learning models startup HiddenLayer Inc. today announced the public launch of a new artificial intelligence cybersecurity platform that empowers security operations and data science teams to protect their AI investments against adversarial machine learning attacks. The HiddenLayerMLSec Platform is comprised of the company’s flagship products HiddenLayer MLDR, ModelScanner and Security Audit Reporting. HiddenLayer MLDR uses ...

Researchers from Varonis Systems Inc.’s Threat Labs today detailed a pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system that can still be exploited, despite a partial patch being issued for one of them. Under the theme of “The Logging Dead,” — yes, Halloween is around the corner — the two event vulnerabilities are described ...