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Atlassian shares plunge on weaker guidance
Shares in enterprise productivity software company Atlassian Corp. Plc. plunged in after-hours trading on weaker-than-expected guidance today despite the company beating market predictions in its quarterly earnings report. For its fourth quarter ended June 30, Atlassian reported revenue of $430.5 million, up 29% from a year. It reported a net loss of $385.2 million, or $1.56 ...
Plurilock lands DHS contract to develop its machine-to-machine authentication tools
Authentication technology startup Plurilock Security Solutions Inc. today announced it has landed a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to do further development on its advanced machine-to-machine authentication and anomaly detection tools. The contract, funded through the DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program, will assist Plurilock in its development of intelligent M2M authentication. ...
27-month sentence sought for former Uber exec Levandowski for trade secret theft
Prosecutors are seeking a 27-month sentence for Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Uber Technologies Inc.’s autonomous vehicle unit, after he plead guilty in March to stealing trade secrets from Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car company Waymo LLC. In addition to jail time, prosecutors are also seeking three years of supervised release and a restitution payment ...
Newly discovered Linux and Windows vulnerability opens the door to hackers
A newly discovered serious vulnerability that affects most Linux and Windows installations, including servers, opens the door to hackers to run riot. Discovered by security researchers at enterprise device security firm Eclypsium Inc. and revealed today, the “BootHole” vulnerability resides in the GRUB2 bootloader utilized by most Linux systems. GRUB2, the latest version of GNU GRUB is the ...
CyberArk launches open-source Shadow Admin identification tool for Azure and AWS
Cybersecurity company CyberArk Software Ltd. today launched a new open-source tool designed to identify Shadow Admin accounts in Microsoft Corp. Azure and Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud environments. Called CyberArk SkyArk, the tool is designed to help organizations combat Shadow Admins by targeting and securing the most privileged entities in both Azure and AWS environments. Shadow ...
Offensive Security acquires open-source vulnerability resource service Vulnhub
Security training and penetration testing company Offensive Security announced today that it has acquired open-source vulnerability resource service VulnHub. Founded in 2012, VulnHub is an open-source, continually updated catalog of information technology assets that are legally hackable, breakable and exploitable by design. The company says the catalog is a unique opportunity for security and IT professionals to ...
For sale on the dark web: 2.5M customer records from alcohol delivery service Drizly
Alcohol delivery service Drizly is the latest to suffer a confirmed data breach, with some 2.5 million customer records finding their way to the shady corner of the internet known as the dark web. News that Drizly may have suffered a data breach first emerged alongside news Monday that financial service provider Dave Inc. had been ...
Stack Overflow raises $85M to accelerate development of its Teams software
Programming-oriented question-and-answer startup Stack Overflow announced today it has raised a hefty $85 million in late-stage funding to accelerate the development of the company’s Teams software as a service knowledge management and collaboration offering as well as to expand into new markets. The Series E round was led by GIC and included Silver Lake Waterman, Andreessen Horowitz, Index ...
Cloudflare denies data leak after 3M customer IP addresses found on the dark web
Network security firm Cloudflare Inc. today denied a report that it suffered a data leak after the records of some 3 million customers were found on the shady corner of the internet called the dark web. The claim comes from the National Coordination Center for Cybersecurity at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, which said ...
Source code from 50+ companies, including Nintendo, Microsoft and Adobe, published online
Source code from dozens of companies has been published online after a developer found the code exposed on public repositories. More than 50 companies have had their source code published. They include Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Advanced Microsoft Devices Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Mediatek Inc., GE Appliances, Nintendo Co. Ltd. and the ...