The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the U.S., has been struck by a ransomware attack that disrupted services. The attack, first described by LAUSD as technical issues until later disclosed as a ransomware attack, struck the school district on the weekend of Sept. 3-4. The form of ransomware used ...

Meta Platforms Inc. has scheduled an event for Oct. 11 where it’s expected to debut its next-generation mixed reality headset. The Meta Connect 2022 event will be held virtually. The site for the event says attendees can “discover how the metaverse is being built by many and why collaboration is the key to it all.” ...

TikTok has denied a claim that it had been breached after a hacker on a popular hacking forum claimed to have obtained both user data and source code from the popular service. A hacker going by the name of “AgainstTheWest” claimed to have breached TikTok on Breach Forums on Sept. 3 and stolen data from ...

Cryptocurrency mining pool provider Poolin has suspended withdrawals from its cryptocurrency wallet service in a possible sign of serious trouble at the company. Founded in 2017, Poolin offers a multi-cryptocurrency mining pool, custodial wallet, block explorer and transaction accelerator. The company is venture capital-backed, having raised $10 million from investors including Three Arrows Capital, LedgerPrime, ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun a review into Amazon.com Inc.’s $1.7 billion planned acquisition of iRobot Corp., the company behind the Roomba brand of robot vacuum cleaners, Politico reported late Friday. The deal, announced Aug. 5, would see Amazon acquire not only the Roomba robotic vacuum line but also educational robots that are ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. has blocked the controversial forum Kiwi Farms after forum members undertook a harassment campaign against a transgender YouTube streamer. Kiwi Farms was initially founded as CWC Wiki in 2009 by a former 8chan moderator to troll and harass Chris Chan, an autistic vlogger and webcomic creator. Becoming Kiwi Farms ...

A disturbing new report finds that three-quarters of mobile applications analyzed contained valid Amazon Web Services Inc. access tokens that allowed access to private AWS cloud services. The findings were detailed today by Kevin Watkins, a security researcher on Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team. The situation involved 1,859 publicly available apps on both Google LLC’s Android operating ...

Work management platform provider Smartsheet Inc. today delivered an earning beat in its latest quarterly earnings report today and also announced that it has acquired digital asset management platform startup Outfit Inc. For its second quarter ended July 31, Smartsheet reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of $13.5 million, or 10 cents per share, ...

Shares in Secureworks Corp. dropped in regular trading today after the cybersecurity company reported a lower-than-expected outlook in its latest quarterly earnings report. For its second quarter ended July 29, Secureworks reported a net loss before costs such as stock compensation of $11.3 million, or 13 cents per share, compared with a profit of $900,000, or one ...

A newly discovered hacking campaign is exploiting an image from the James Webb Telescope to infect targets with malware. Detailed today by researchers at Securonix Inc. and dubbed “GO#WEBBFUSCATOR,” the campaign leverages a deep field image taken from the telescope and obfuscated Golang programming language payloads to infect a potential victim. The infection vector starts with ...