Cybersecurity

Livestock shippers are asking the Biden administration to issue an emergency waiver of work-rule restrictions for truckers hauling both livestock and meat products to avoid transportation delays in the wake of the cyberattack on global meat supplier JBS. In a letter sent Wednesday to Secretary of...

Canada Post said on Wednesday that a cyberattack and data breach on an electronic data interchange (EDI) supplier has compromised information from 44 of its large parcel business customers, affecting nearly 1 million recipients.  The attack on Ontario-based Commport Communications compromised the...

Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) selected CrowdStrike Holdings Inc’s (NASDAQ: CRWD) CrowdStrike Falcon to expand into new geographies and new joint offerings, including Ransomware Readiness and Resilience, Incident Response (IR), Recovery and Remediation, and the...

In case they needed one, the transportation and logistics industry got a reminder — in the form of the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline — of the kind of havoc hackers can wreak on businesses and their customers. The shutdown of a vital supplier of the diesel that keeps trucks moving could...

The cyberattack that temporarily shut down the Colonial Pipeline this month serves as a stark reminder that all industries are prone to security threats. A single attack brought the nation to a crawl. Just think of the damage one could cause your operation. In today's data-rich transportation...

Colonial Pipeline's operations are getting back to normal rapidly, with the company saying Thursday morning that deliveries of petroleum products have "commenced in a majority of the markets we service." The reaction in commodity markets undercuts the suggestion of recent days that the Colonial...

NortonLifeLock Inc (NASDAQ: NLOK) has exhibited better-than-expected growth, driven by solid execution of management’s strategy, according to BofA Securities. The NortonLifeLock Analyst: Tal Liani upgraded the rating for NortonLifeLock from Underperform to Buy, while raising the price target...

Cybersecurity is going to be the most important industry in the U.S. as the economy increasingly goes digital, wealth advisor Josh Brown said Thursday on CNBC's "Fast Money: Halftime Report." Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: CRWD) is the salesforce.com inc (NYSE: CRM) of...

This week’s offerings don’t have quite the same high profile as last week's highly anticipated IPO of Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN). Nevertheless, there are several exciting IPOs that investors should consider this week, including UiPath and Latham Holdings. Here is a look at the...

Personal information leaked because of an earlier vulnerability on Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has reportedly been made freely available online. What Happened: Business Insider reported that the personal information of 533 million Facebook users has been posted on a "low level hacking...

An Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) smartphone user, Phillipe Christodoulou, lost over $1 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) after he downloaded an application from the iPhone’s App Store, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. What Happened: Christodoulou is angry at the Tim Cook-led company after losing...

The CEO of WISeKey International Holdings (NASDAQ: WKEY) joined Benzinga’s “Power Hour” Friday to discuss details of the company and its NFT opportunity. NFT Opportunity: CEO Carlos Moreira told Benzinga the back end of technology for non-fungible tokens has been present for many...

A Russian national who attempted to hack Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) last year and introduce malware to compromise the company has pleaded guilty in the U.S. and could spend up to ten months in prison, according to a report by The Associated Press. What Happened: Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov pleaded...

The number of companies announcing NFT news continues to rise. Stocks with associated news on non-fungible tokens are seeing investor demand and rising share prices. What Happened: Cybersecurity company WISeKey International Holdings (NASDAQ: WKEY) announced it will launch an NFT application for...

Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: CRWD) shares traded lower by 2% on Wednesday after the company reported a profitable fourth quarter and issued guidance above Wall Street expectations. On Tuesday, CrowdStrike reported fourth-quarter adjusted EPS of 13 cents on $264.9 million in revenue. Both...