Developer cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. is warning some customers today that their email addresses may have been exposed following a new data breach at Intuit Inc.-owned email marketing provider Mailchimp. The breach, the second this year after an earlier one in April, was disclosed by Mailchimp in a notice published Aug. 12. The breach was described only ...

Argentina’s Judiciary of Córdoba has been forced to suspend its information technology services after being targeted in a ransomware attack. The attack is reported to have taken place on Aug. 13 and involves a fairly new ransomware group going by the name of “Play.” Bleeping Computer reported Monday that as a result of the attack, judiciary ...

Apple Inc. has reportedly laid off contract-based recruiters as part of a push to slow hiring and spending. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that Apple has laid off about 100 recruiters in its offices in Texas, Singapore and other locations because of changes in the company’s business needs. ...

Federated machine learning startup integrate.ai today announced the availability of its privacy-preserving machine learning and analytics platform. The new integrate.ai platform users federated learning and differential privacy technologies to unlock a range of machine learning and analytics capabilities on data that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to access because of privacy, confidentiality or technical ...

An annual survey by Okta Inc. finds that the embrace of zero-trust security is surging amid growing concern about cybersecurity challenges among enterprises. Okta’s State of Zero Trust Security 2022 report released today, based on a survey of 700 security leaders, found that nearly all organizations surveyed have either already started a zero-trust initiative or have ...

A new report from backup monitoring and reporting company Bocada LLC finds that information technology professionals are faced with new challenges in the critical task of backups. The firm’s recent survey found that the wide variety of backup environments as well as data volume growth will continue driving backup monitoring difficulties. Securing data across backup ...

Google LLC may be set to lay off a significant number of employees amid a worsening global economic situation and multiple quarters of negative economic growth in the U.S. As reported by the New York Post late last week, Google has suspended hiring new employees and allegedly told some existing employees to “shape up or ...

Thousands of virtual network computing instances have been found exposed online without the need for authentication, potentially allowing attackers to gain access to and take over networks easily. As detailed Friday by researchers at Cyble Inc., the issue is how VNC uses the Remote Frame Buffer protocol to provide control of a remote machine over a ...

Zoom Video Communications Inc. today issued a patch for a vulnerability revealed by security researcher Patrick Wardle at the annual DEF CON Conference last week. The vulnerability, named CVE-2022-28756, was found in Zoom for macOS versions 5.7.3 to 5.11.3 and potentially allowed an attacker to gain access and take over an Apple Inc. computer through Zoom’s ...

Michigan healthcare provider Priority Health has suffered a data breach affecting about 120,000 members. The data breach did not target the health provider directly but a third-party vendor, Warner Norcoss & Judd LLP. The breach occurred in October and is described in a press release as unauthorized activity involving some systems. Priority Health is Michigan’s ...