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 ...

Information security startup Enso Security today launched out of stealth with a venture capital raise of $6 million in seed funding. The seed round was led by YL Ventures and included Jump Capital, toDay Ventures and a number of individual investors. Enso Security was founded by former Wix.com application security experts Roy Erlich, Chen Gour Arie and ...

Truck automation and logistics startup Outrider Inc. today announced it has raised $65 million in new funding to scale up and support its technology to automate distribution yards. The Series B round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies and included NEA, 8VC, Prologis Ventures, Evolv Ventures and Henry Crown and Co. Founded in 2017 and launched out of ...

Amazon.com Inc. has fired a number of employees alleged to have leaked customer information to unaffiliated third parties in violation of company policies. The incident first came to light after customers started reporting receiving messages from Amazon over the weekend. The messages noted that their email addresses were disclosed by an Amazon employee to a ...