Cisco Systems Inc. is urging customers to update affected routers quickly after the discovery and disclosure of a severe vulnerability on devices running its IOS XE operating system. CVE-2019-12643, as it’s known, ranked as a 10 out 10 for severity. The vulnerability in the Cisco REST API virtual service container for Cisco IOS XE, revealed Wednesday, ...

Hundreds of dentist offices across the U.S. have been crippled by ransomware in the latest attack to target the healthcare industry. The attacks appear to have started as early as June 24 with some reports of ransomware affecting dentists in July. But a more widespread attack targeting dentists occurred Aug. 26, according to security researcher Brian Krebs. The ...

Paige A. Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the theft of more than 100 million customer records from Capital One Financial Corp., has been indicted on additional charges for hacking more than 30 companies. Thompson was first said to have been involved in the hacking of other companies Aug. 14 when the U.S. Department of Justice said it had found evidence of ...

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, today rolled out a new developer platform aimed at fostering blockchain innovation, particularly across the company’s existing platforms. Called Binance X, the initiative includes a hub where developers receive educational material and support for Binance solutions such as the Binance Chain, the company’s application programming interface, software ...

Atlassian Corp. Plc Wednesday warned customers of its popular Confluence collaboration software program to urgently update their installations following the discovery of a critical vulnerability that can allow an attacker to gain access and steal data. The security advisory affects all versions of Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center from 6.1.0 before 6.6.16, 6.7.0 before ...

Despite receiving another 90-day reprieve from U.S. technology sanctions, the latest smartphone releases from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. will not included licensed versions of Google LLC’s Android operating system. Reuters quotes Google executives as saying that the 90-day reprieve does not extend to new devices and hence Huawei “may not be able to offer Google’s official Android operating ...

Shares in cloud identity management service provider Okta Inc. dropped in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company reported a mixed bag of results and guidance. Okta beat market analyst predictions on earnings and revenue for its fiscal second quarter, reporting a 5-cent-per-share loss versus a prediction of a 10-cent loss and a 15-cent loss a year ago. The ...

The U.S. government is planning to launch a new program that will focus on protecting voter registration databases and systems from cyberattacks ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Reuters reported Tuesday that the new initiative, to be led by the U.S. Department on Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, stems from concern about ransomware attacks such as ...

Cybersecurity software firm Imperva Inc. today disclosed a “security incident” involving its Cloud Web Application Firewall product, previously known as Incapsula, in 2017 that appears to have resulted in the theft of customer data. “On August 20, 2019, we learned from a third party of a data exposure that impacts a subset of customers of ...

Craig Wright, the man who on several occasions has claimed to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is as much as $5 billion in bitcoin poorer after he lost a case with the estate of a former business partner. Ira Kleiman, the brother of Wright’s late business partner David Kleiman, sued Wright on behalf of the ...