The Home Depot Inc. in Canada has suffered a data leak after sending customer information to other Home Depot customers. The first reports of the data breach appeared on Twitter on Oct. 28 as customers said they received reminder emails by mistake for hundreds of orders that were ready to pick up. The emails included customer names, email ...

Researchers at Google LLC’s Project Zero have disclosed a new Windows vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass security to install malicious software. Detailed late last month by researchers Mateusz Jurczyk and Sergei Glazunov, the zero-day or heretofore undiscovered vulnerability relates to an integer overflow flaw in input/output control in the Kernel Cryptographer Driver in Windows. Combined with a previously ...

Hackers have stolen $2.3 million form the Republican Party of Wisconsin following a phishing attack. The phishing attack was detected Oct. 22 and involved those behind the hack obtaining the funds through doctored invoices under the name of Wisconsin GOP vendors. The hackers altered invoices so that when they were paid, the money did not go ...

A joint advisory from various U.S. government agencies is warning that hospitals and healthcare providers are actively being targeted by ransomware attacks and that there’s an imminent threat of further attacks. The advisory, issued Wednesday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity ...

Shares in Twitter Inc. plunged in after-hours trading after the microblogging service delivered mixed third-quarter earnings results today. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Twitter reported a profit of 19 cents per share on revenue of $936 million. Analysts had been predicting a six-cent-per-share profit on $777 million in revenue. Ad revenue came in at $808 ...

Shares in Fortinet Inc. rose slightly in after-hours trading after the cybersecurity company beat analysts’ predictions for its third-quarter earnings. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Fortinet reported revenue rose 19% from a year ago, to $651.1 million. Profit before costs such as stock compensation rose 31%, to 88 cents per share. Analysts had been predicting a ...

Cybersecurity firm McAfee LLC today announced new products and features at its MPOWER Digital virtual conference that are designed to provide enhanced security services. Leading the two main announcements is the new MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform. It’s designed to deliver comprehensive data protection, threat protection, governance and compliance for cloud-native application lifecycles. Described as ...

Microsoft Corp. has warned that an Iranian-linked advanced protection threat group is targeting attendees of the forthcoming 2021 Munich Security Conference. The annual event, run since 1963, is an international security conference that attracts senior decision-makers and thought leaders, including heads of state, ministers and leading personalities from international and nongovernmental organizations. In a blog ...

Multinational Swedish security company Gunnebo AB has been hacked with the data stolen finding its way onto the dark web, the shady part of the internet reachable with special software. Founded in 1889, though with roots in an earlier company founded in 1764, Gunnebo is a leading provider particularly in Europe of banking security solutions, ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves, an EC2 capability designed to make it easier for customers to securely process highly sensitive data. Nitro Enclaves, first announced as one of three new security products from Amazon last December, offers the ability to customers to partition compute and memory resources within an ...