Following the arrest of three people in relation to the hacking of Twitter Inc. on Friday, more details have emerged as to how the trio were tracked down and how they managed to gain access to Twitter. The mastermind of the hack was not named by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation but was later ...

Uncertainty surrounds the future of Chinese-owned social video app TikTok today following an 11th-hour bid by Microsoft Corp. to acquire the company’s U.S. arm ahead of a possible ban on the app from the Trump administration. Reports that TikTok could be sold to U.S. investors first emerged July 23 before a possible ban, with Microsoft coming to ...

North Korean hackers are expanding their efforts to break into U.S. defense and aerospace companies in a series of attacks dubbed “Operation North Star.” Detailed Wednesday by researchers at McAfee Advanced Threat Research, the operation involves the use of a series of malicious documents containing job postings taken from leading defense contractors. The documents, which typically contain ...

IAC/Interactivecorp-owned dating service OkCupid has fixed security flaws in its website and apps that could have allowed hackers to access personal data and private messages of the service’s 50 million users. The vulnerabilities were found and revealed Wednesday by security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and covered a range of sloppy coding. The vulnerabilities ...

Email security provider Mimecast Ltd. said today it has acquired eTorch Inc., the owners of MessageControl, a messaging security provider that offers solutions to stop social engineering and human activity attacks, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2015, MessageControl uses artificial intelligence to stop identity attacks. The company’s offering inspects email attributes and content and then ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...