Cybersecurity
KKR-backed KnowBe4 valued at over $3.5 billion in strong Nasdaq debut
Cybersecurity vendor KnowBe4 Inc has joined a string of technology-focused companies that saw strong market debuts in the US this year, after its shares opened nearly 25% above the...
US directs agencies to apply patches to Microsoft servers
The top cybersecurity official in the White House directed all government agencies to urgently apply new patches for Microsoft Exchange email servers to head off exploitation by ha...
SolarWinds says dealing with hack fallout cost at least $18 million
SolarWinds said the sprawling breach stemming from the compromise of its flagship software product has cost the company at least $18 million in the first three months of 2021.
Software vendors would have to disclose breaches under new order
A planned executive order by President Joe Biden will require many software vendors to notify their federal government customers when the companies have a cybersecurity breach, acc...
US government to respond to SolarWinds hackers in weeks
The Biden White House will respond “in weeks, not months” to the perpetrators of the SolarWinds hack, who used the US tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft...
Microsoft and Google openly feuding amid hacks and competition inquiries
Driven in part by pressure from lawmakers and regulators over the extraordinary power the two technology giants wield over American life, the two players are wrestling to throw eac...
60,000 computer systems possibly exposed in Germany to Microsoft flaw
As many as 60,000 computer systems in Germany were exposed to a flaw that allows unauthorized users to access systems in Microsoft Corp’s email software, the head of its cybe...
White House says closely tracking Microsoft’s emergency patch
The White House is closely tracking an emergency patch Microsoft has released, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has said, after an unknown hacking group recently broke in...
Microsoft says Chinese hackers targeted groups via server software
A China-linked cyberespionage group has been remotely plundering email inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software, the company and outside researchers...
SolarWinds hack was ‘largest and most sophisticated attack’ ever
A hacking campaign that used a US tech company as a springboard to compromise government agencies is “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,”...
SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code, the company says
The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise managed to split Microsoft and access a number of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something specialists said deliver...
Cybersecurity is top business worry in ‘age of risk’: Marsh & McLennan CEO
Cybersecurity has emerged as the most pressing vulnerability for business facing a new “age of risk,” topping the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, in part becau...
Spy agency ducks questions about ‘back doors’ in tech products
The US National Security Agency has been rebuffing efforts by a leading Congressional critic to ascertain whether it is continuing to place so-called back doors to commercial techn...
Facebook says suspected hackers behind US election threats operated in 2019
Iranian hackers suspected of exposing threatening messages to US voters weekly and spreading false information regarding compromised election systems conducted a disinformation cam...