A hacking group linked to the Chinese government is alleged to have stolen more than $20 million in COVID relief benefits, including U.S. Small Business Administration loans and unemployment funds in more than a dozen states. NBC reported today that the allegation comes from the Secret Service, although the agency has not released a report on ...

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today released a joint research study that used federated learning, a distributed machine learning and artificial intelligence approach, to help healthcare and research institutions identify malignant brain tumors. The study is said to be the largest medical federated learning study ever undertaken, with ...

A new report from Reversing Labs Inc. has found that nearly two years after the SolarWinds Worldwide LLC hack, software supply chain attacks have shown no sign of slowing down or abating. The report found that attacks that leverage malicious open-source modules have continued to multiply in the commercial sector. Enterprise has seen an exponential increase ...

No-code automation platform startup Torq Ltd. today announced the launch of Torq Insights, a new overlay for managing security stacks. The company also announced that it has hit a new milestone of having executed more than 1 million daily security automations. Torq Insights is a comprehensive reporting and analytics overlay that provides the operational data needed to consistently ...

Apple Inc.’s long-awaited mixed reality headset may be delayed until the second half of 2023 because of software issues, according to well-respected Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo. Kuo explained in a thread on Twitter today that his latest survey indicates the mass-shipment schedule of Apple’s MR headset may be delayed until the second half on account of ...

Password manager LastPass US LP has suffered another data breach, as a hacker gained access to a third-party cloud storage service used by the company and its affiliate GoTo Technologies USA Inc. The data breach was a direct result of a previous breach reported by LastPass in August. Those behind the first hack used data obtained ...

Apple Inc.’s long-awaited mixed reality headset is moving closer to fruition, with a report today reporting that its operating system has been given a new name ahead of an expected debut next year. Apple guru Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that the name of the OS that will ...

Coinbase Inc. is the latest company to have issues with Apple and its App Store policies, claiming that it has been forced to remove nonfungible token transfers from its iOS wallet because Apple wants a cut of the transfer fees. Nonfungible tokens, better known as NFTs, rose to popularity in late 2020. Although interest in ...

Shares in Zscaler Inc. plunged in late trading despite the cybersecurity company delivering strong earnings and revenue beats in its latest quarter. For its third quarter that ended Oct. 31, Zscaler reported net income before certain costs of 29 cents a share, up from 14 cents a share in the same quarter of last year. Revenue jumped 54%, ...

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password today announced a new “sign-in with” browser extension feature to assist users in signing in more quickly. Using the new extension, users can automatically save, store and autofill logins with third-party provider credentials – including those from Google LLC, Apple Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Okta Inc. ...