Thousands of patient records stored by nTreatment, a company that provides electronic health and patient records to doctors and psychiatrists, has been exposed online in the latest case of a company failing to secure its cloud storage. The data, discovered and publicized today by TechCrunch on a Microsoft Azure server, included 109,000 files, a large portion said to ...

Shares in Box Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after the company delivered weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter guidance. For the quarter ended Oct. 31, Box reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of 20 cents a share on revenue that rose 11% from a year ago, to $196 million. Analysts had been predicting an adjusted profit of ...

Information technology security software company Ivanti Inc. said today it has completed its acquisitions of endpoint management solutions firm MobileIron Inc. and secure access provider Pulse Secure LLC that it announced in September. The deal to acquire MobileIron was valued at approximately $872 million, with MobileIron shareholders receiving $7.05 cash per share, a 27% premium on the company’s share ...

Salesforce.com Inc. today announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Slack Technologies Inc. in a deal valued at $27.7 billion. Slack shareholders will receive $27.79 per share and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock. The deal is a premium over the company’s market capitalization, which sat at $25 billion as of the close ...

Bitcoin hit a record high in trading today as the cryptocurrency market continues to boom during the COVID-19 pandemic. The price of bitcoin peaked at $19,829.27 at 10:15 a.m. EST before dropping to $19,158 and then rising slightly once again. Bitcoin was trading at $19,513.32 as of 11:15 p.m. EST. Bitcoin’s previous record high was $19,783.06 on ...

Zoom Video Communications Inc. once again smashed analyst predictions in its quarterly earnings today, but its shares fell in after-hours trading as the company warned that its record growth will not last forever. For the quarter ended Oct. 31, Zoom reported revenue rocketed 367%, to $777.2 million, over the same quarter of 2019 as the company ...

Endemol Shine, the global production company behind television shows such as “Big Brother,” “MasterChef” and “The Voice,” has been struck by a DopplePaymer ransomware attack and sensitive information was stolen. The attack was confirmed Nov. 26 by Banijay SAS, the parent company of Endemol Shine, which described the attack as a cybersecurity incident involving both Endemol ...

Industrial computer manufacturer Advantech Co. Ltd. has been hit with a ransomware attack, and those behind the attack are demanding a ransom of 750 bitcoin ($13.8 million). Based in Taiwan, Advantech is the world’s largest supplier of industrial computers, with a 34% market share as of 2018. The company also manufactures network devices, servers, industrial “internet ...

Suspected North Korean hackers have been targeting employees of U.K.-Swiss drug company and COVID-19 vaccine maker AstraZeneca plc in an attempt to hack the company, according to sources quoted Friday by Reuters. The hackers are said to have been posing as recruiters on sites such as LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach the company’s staff with fake job ...

The Baltimore County Public School system was forced to cancel classes Wednesday after its computer network was struck by a ransomware attack. According to local reports, the ransomware disabled the school system’s entire network. The attack struck the network Tuesday night. One parent claimed to have been on a virtual school board meeting at 10:30 p.m. ...