A recently detected phishing campaign targeting U.S. utility companies is believed to have its origins with a state-sponsored hacking group from China according to security researchers. First detailed Thursday by researchers at Proofpoint Inc., the LookBack campaign targets utility company employees with emails purporting to be from the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, ...

Venture capital-backed sneaker trading site StockX Inc. is the latest to be hacked, with the records of 6.8 million customers stolen. The hack was originally covered up with StockX pushing out a password reset to customers as part of a “system update” on Thursday. But the company confessed on Sunday that it had what it describes as ...

The U.S. Department of Defense announced today that it’s reviewing its process for the awarding of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract after President Donald Trump raised concerns about the exclusion of some companies from the bidding process. Years in the making, the $10 billion contract, which includes unified cloud infrastructure, intelligence ...

Education company Pearson Plc has been hacked, with data stolen from about 13,000 school and university accounts primarily in the U.S. The hack, which was buried in a media release titled as “Pearson customer notification,” involved the theft of data that included first name, last name and in some cases date of birth or email ...

After raising $570 million in its initial public offering, application monitoring firm Dynatrace LLC saw its shares pop 49% on the New York Stock Exchange today as investors lapped up another offering in what is already a record year for tech IPOs. Offering 35.6 million shares at $16 per share, a figure already up on an initial ...

Cloud security startup Altitude Networks Inc. today said it has raised $9 million in new funding. The Series A round was led by Felicis Ventures and included Slack Fund, Accomplice and Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer at Facebook Inc. Founded in 2018 by former Twitter Inc. Chief Information Security Officer Michael Coates and Amir ...

An Elasticsearch database with more than 134 million records belonging to car maker Honda Motor Co. was discovered unsecured online by a security researcher earlier this month in yet another case of a company failing to secure its cloud-hosted data properly. Discovered by researcher Justin Paine and detailed on Rainbowtabl.es today, the database was found ...

Cloud-based call center software firm Five9 Inc. smashed analysts predictions with its second-quarter financial results today, delivering its 14th consecutive quarter of positive cash flow. For the quarter ending June 30, Five9 recorded revenue of $77.4 million, up 27% from a year ago, while its gross margin came in at 59.6%, just above 59.4% in ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. is set to go public in September after filing a confidential S-1 application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report today from Business Insider. Cloudflare was first reported to be considering an initial public offering this year in October, but those plans were speculated to be on ...

The day after multibillion-dollar financial services company Capital One Financial Corp. disclosed that more than 100 million customers records had been stolen via a poorly secured cloud instance, new ramifications keep on emerging. Now, concerns are being raised in regard to both privacy and cloud security. That’s all the more so because it’s still unknown ...