Network security solutions firm Fortinet Inc. today announced it has acquired security as a service startup OPAQ Networks Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2017, OPAQ offers networking and security services with a platform that provides a cloud-based Secure Access Service Edge designed to protect an entire distributed network including data centers, branch offices, ...

Nearly 1 million records related to students across several e-learning websites have been found exposed online in the latest cases of misconfigured cloud storage. Discovered by security researchers at Wizcase and revealed July 18, the data was found in exposed Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage buckets and on ElasticSearch servers from five companies: Square ...

Showing China’s growing presence in car-related tech ventures, Chinese ride-hailing giant and Uber Technologies Inc. rival Didi Chuxing Technology Co. is planning an initial public offering, and emerging Tesla Inc. rival Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology Co. Ltd., better known as Xpeng, has raised $500 million in new funding. Although little known in the U.S., Didi ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has quietly launched a new service that gives public health officials access to data on drivers and riders who have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19. According to Reuters today, the new service includes a website page for the exclusive use of public health departments, which can sort information based on names ...

An unexpected hero has emerged from the hack of high-profile accounts on Twitter last week: Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. said today it prevented more than 1,000 customers from sending bitcoin to accounts operated by those behind the hack. In the hack of Twitter Inc., dozens of “blue checkmark” accounts, including those of former President Barack ...

French telecommunications company Orange S.A. has been targeted by a ransomware attack with data stolen. First reported July 16 by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware attack targeted Orange’s Business Services division, which offers enterprise solutions such as remote support, virtual workstations, system security, cloud backups and cloud hosting. The ransomware attack came from the Nefilim ransomware group, ...

The infamous botnet Emotet is back after a five-month break with a new Microsoft Office phishing campaign. The return of Emotet was first spotted by Malwarebytes Labs July 13 and the campaign took off by July 17. Emotet first emerged in 2014, and though primarily known as a botnet, the Emotet name is also applied ...

Further details came to light today concerning the hack of Twitter Inc. Wednesday in which scammers tweeted bitcoin scam messages across a large number of high-profile accounts — including a possible suspect behind the attack. The path to the hack is still somewhat subject to conjecture, but one thing is clear: A Twitter employee was involved, ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today issued an emergency directive ordering civil federal government agencies using Windows Server to patch a critical security vulnerability revealed by Microsoft Corp. earlier this week. The vulnerability, dubbed “SIGRed,” resides in Windows DNS and can be exploited to allow an attacker to take ...

The U.S., U.K. and Canada today issued a joint advisory warning that a hacking group linked to Russian intelligence services is targeting COVID-19 related research. The advisory was written by the U.K. National Cyber Security Center and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency. It points the ...