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 ...

Chipmaker Arm Ltd. today filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement concerning designs from Nuvia, the chip startup Qualcomm acquired for $1.4 billion in January 2021. In the lawsuit, Arm claims that Qualcomm attempted to transfer Nuvia licenses without consent and as such, it terminated Nuvia’s licenses in March. ...

“Internet of things” cloud platform provider Samsara Inc. reported higher-than-expect revenue in its second quarter thanks to increasing demand for its services. For the quarter, which ended July 30, Samsara reported a net loss before costs such as stock compensation of $20.2 million, or four cents per share, compared with a loss of $29.9 million, ...

SentinelOne Inc. and Okta Inc. reported earnings beats and better-than-expected forecasts in their latest quarters, but problems with the integration of Auth0 Inc. saw Okta shares plunge in late trading. For its second quarter ended July 31, SentinelOne reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of 20 cents per share, down from a loss of 38 ...

Identify verification and fraud prevention company Authenticate.com today announced the launch of its Identity Verification Infrastructure as a Service that integrates photo identification and passport authentication into any application or platform. Designed for high-risk businesses, the new service provides an easy way to integrate ID verification with optional support for facial recognition, liveness detection, knowledge quizzes ...

Zero-trust security startup Xage Security Inc. has today launched a new consulting and services arm designed to accelerate cybersecurity defense transformation and to help operators meet security requirements ahead of compliance deadlines. Xage Cybersecurity Services features a full lifecycle of consulting and global implementation capabilities. The service analyzes and evaluates current systems and networks for vulnerabilities and gaps against ...