Dell Technologies Inc. today issued an urgent patch to address vulnerabilities found in hundreds of millions of computers sold by the company since 2009. Discovered and publicized today by researchers at SentinelLabs, the five vulnerabilities, tracked collectively as CVE-2021-21551, affect DVUtil 2.3, a Dell BIOS driver that allows the operating system and system apps to interact ...

Shares in ride-hailing firm Lyft Inc. surged in after-hours trading after the company beat analysts’ expectations in its first-quarter earnings report. For the quarter ended March 31, Lyft reported revenue fell 37% from a year ago, to $609 million, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to depress demand. However, revenue was up 7% from the previous ...

Cyber asset management and governance solution startup JupiterOne Inc. today announce it has raised $30 million in new funding to grow its engineering, product development and go-to-market capabilities, including building out its remote workforce. The Series B round was led by Sapphire Ventures and included Bain Capital Ventures. Founded in 2018 as a spinoff based on an ...

Cloud-native data protection firm Trilio Data Inc. today announced the latest version of TrilioVault for Kubernetes, a backup and recovery platform that enables restoration and mobility of entire Kubernetes workloads on-demand. TrilioVault for Kubernetes v2.1 offers a range of new Kubernetes management functionality including visibility and insights into Velero-based backups as well as enhanced disaster recovery capabilities ...

Scripps Health, a San Diego, California-based health care provider, has been hit by a ransomware attack that took its systems taken offline. The ransomware attack was detected on May 1 and affected computer systems inside at least two hospitals as well as taking its website and related services offline. The exact details of the form ...

Apple Inc. may be set to follow in the footsteps of its main rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd and debut a foldable phone, according to famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. TFI Securities analyst Kuo, who’s nearly always right when it comes to Apple predictions, said in his latest note that based on an industry survey ...

Epic Games Ltd.’s lawsuit against Apple Inc. over alleged anticompetitive behavior has finally come to court as Apple defended its control of its App Store. Epic, perhaps best known as the creator of the popular battle game “Fortnite,” filed a lawsuit against Apple in August after “Fortnite” was removed from the Apple App Store as ...

Credit reporting company Experian plc has suffered a new data breach, with the credit scores of almost every person in the U.S. exposed through an unprotected application programming interface. Discovered and publicized April 28 by security researcher Bill Demirkapi, the breach involved a tool called the Experian Connect API that allows lenders to automate FICO-score ...

Spectre, a chip vulnerability first discovered in 2018 that came to involve more vulnerabilities that year, is back, as researchers have discovered new variants that affect all modern processors. Detailed this past week by researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of California at San Diego, the three new Spectre vulnerabilities were found in the ...

The local government of Whistler, a famous ski resort in British Columbia, Canada, has been struck by ransomware. The Resort Municipality of Whistler said in a statement that it had suffered a cybersecurity incident April 28 that has resulted in its temporarily suspending services. The suspension of services included phone, network and website access, with ...