S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, the company behind various stock market indices today announced that it plans to launch a global cryptocurrency indexing service in 2021. The service, provided in partnership with crypto data provider Lukka Inc. will provide S&P DJI-branded and customized indexing and benchmarking solutions supported by Lukka’s crypto-asset pricing data. According to Reuters, ...

Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. have uncovered a global phishing campaign targeting the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The campaign consists of “spear phishing” emails seeking to gain credentials of employees at companies currently in the process of shipping coronavirus vaccines. IBM Security Intelligence explained in a blog post today that the operation targeted the COVID-19 ...

Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a range of new intrinsic security solutions and services designed to protect customer data across the supply chain, infrastructure, devices and services. Focusing on helping customers lower security risk and become more cyber-resilient, the announcement includes a new secure supply chain offering designed to make secure commercial personal computers more secure. There’s also ...

Stolen credentials forum OGUsers has been hacked again, with user data stolen — a case of hackers being hacked. First reported today by Krebs on Security, the hack is said to have taken place about a week ago with the front page of OGUsers defaced with a message stating that the forum’s user database had been ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning in relation to cybercriminals exploiting email rule vulnerability to increase the likelihood of successful business email compromise. The warning, published Nov. 25 as a Private Industry Notification but only now made public, warns that the bureau has seen an increase in cybercriminals implementing auto-forwarding rules ...

Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Zscaler Inc. surged in after-hours trading today after both security companies beat analyst predictions on revenue, earnings and guidance in their quarterly earnings reports. For the quarter ended Oct. 1, CrowdStrike reported revenue jumped 86% year over year, to $232.5 million. The growth was driven by an 87% increased ...

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 ...