Silicon Valley email security firm Proofpoint is laying off 280 positions two months into the tenure of Sumit Dhawan as its chief executive officer. A company spokesperson said Proofpoint anticipates moving half the eliminated positions to overseas units in Argentina and Ireland by midyear.
Hackers are scanning the internet looking for vulnerable instances of the Jenkins server used by software developers for continuous integration and continuous delivery. There are approximately 45,000 exposed Jenkins servers susceptible to a critical remote code execution flaw.
Cloud providers told the government they aren't very happy about a proposed regulation requiring them to verify the identity of foreign customers, but their complaints are unlikely to stop the U.S. Department of Commerce from proceeding with the rule.
A federal judge has again given the green light for a proposed consolidated class action lawsuit against Meta to proceed. The litigation claims the firm unlawfully collected patient data from the websites of hospitals and other providers through the use of its Pixel tracking tool.
The Italian data protection regulator fined a midsize northern city 50,000 euros for deploying a pilot artificial intelligence public safety project financed by the European Union. Trento was a partner in three pilots that planned to use AI to detect threats.
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice used a court order to disrupt a Chinese hacking operation that compromised thousands of internet-connected devices and targeted sensitive areas of U.S. critical infrastructure, according to media reports.
The New York attorney general sued the third-largest bank in the United States over its alleged failure to protect consumers from scammers. "If a bank cannot secure its customers' accounts, they are failing in their most basic duty," said Attorney General Letitia James.
While ransomware groups rightly have a reputation for being morally and ethically bankrupt, many do play things straight with their victims. But RansomedVC is a notable exception. In some ways, it is "more dangerous" because of its expert ability to lie, according to researcher Jon DiMaggio.
A California insurance broker that handles employee benefits, workers' compensation and property liability is notifying more than 1.5 million individuals about a ransomware/data exfiltration attack last August that involved health insurance information, passport numbers and Social Security numbers.
A school district in Freehold Township, New Jersey was forced to close its schools and offices for thousands of students Monday after suffering a cybersecurity incident that caused technical difficulties across its network environment, administrators said.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has 30 days to respond to the Italian data regulator after an investigation by the agency concluded the company apparently had violated European privacy laws. Europe is preparing to implement a comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence.
In today’s fast-changing technology landscape, businesses across all industries are reimagining the architecture for their branches, allowing them to be agile and better serve their customers.
A man sentenced to five years in prison for leaking Donald Trump's tax returns developed a "sophisticated, detailed plan" to evade detection by law enforcement while secretly downloading the former president's data from an Internal Revenue Service database, according to court filings.
Multiple vulnerabilities in a widely used open-source implementation of the UEFI specification allow attackers to introduce malware operating at the firmware level. The vulnerabilities mainly affect server machines in which a boot server delivers the operating system over the local network.
Network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds moved to dismiss a federal lawsuit accusing the company and its CISO of securities fraud after they allegedly misstated the efficacy of its cybersecurity controls. Russian intelligence hacked the company in an incident disclosed in 2020.
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