Supplies of Apple Inc.’s iPhones are at risk after a Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Foxconn) factory in Zhengzhou, China, the largest iPhone factory in the world, was hit by a COVID-19 outbreak. Despite most of the world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, the one notable exception is China, which has continued to enforce ...

Days after taking over Twitter Inc., the rule of Elon Musk continues to be colorful, with various rumors and reports of changes circulating online. Although job cuts of some sort are a certainty and reports suggest a price rise for the Twitter Blue subscription service, the biggest out-of-left-field news today is the possible resurrection of ...

Threat protection startup Deep Instinct Ltd. today released a new report that details some disturbing changes in the world of ransomware as the fight against cybercrime has continued to ramp up throughout the year. The 2022 Bi-Annual Cyber Threat Report finds significant changes in threat actor structure as some of the most prevalent actors have changed or ...

New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk is reported to have ordered broad layoffs at the online news and social networking site, The Wall Street Journal reported today. Coming into the acquisition of the company Thursday by Musk (pictured), reports suggested the job cuts could be as high as 75% of the company’s workforce. However, the Journal report noted that ...

A new research paper released today by Symantec, a division of Broadcom Inc., details previously unknown tools and techniques used in a stealthy campaign by a suspected threat actor. A dropper called Trojan.Geppei is being used by a threat actor Symantec has dubbed “Cranefly” (UNC3524) to install previously undocumented malware known as Denfuan and other tools. Danfuan ...

The White House has added the chemical industry to the administration’s Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative, which was launched in July 2021 following the attack on Colonial Pipeline Co. earlier the same year. The expansion to chemical companies, the majority privately owned, is said by the White House to be needed to strengthen the resilience ...

Media conglomerate Thomson Reuters Corp. has been found to have exposed more than 3 terabytes of sensitive customer and corporate data, the latest company to fail in applying basic security to its hosting solutions. Discovered by researchers at Cybernews and announced today, the data was found on public-facing ElasticSearch databases. The content of the databases, ...

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. shares rose strongly in regular trading today after the cybersecurity company reported solid earnings and revenue beats in the third quarter. For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, Check Point reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $1.77 a share, up 7% year-over-year, on revenue of $578 ...

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 ...