A newly discovered high-severity Linux vulnerability that has been present on many Linux distributions for at least two years could allow threat actors to run malicious code with elevated privileges. Discovered by researchers at the Qualys Threat Research Unit, the vulnerability has been dubbed “Looney Tunables” in reference to the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable involved in ...

BlackBerry Ltd. announced today that it plans to split its business into two — one company for its cybersecurity business and another for its internet of things business, which it aims to take public in an initial public offering next year. The decision to split its existing business came after a review of its portfolio ...

Cloud incident response company Mitiga Security Inc. today announced that Cisco Investments, the investment arm of Cisco Systems Inc., has made a strategic investment in the company to support greater market adoption among enterprises seeking modern security solutions for their cloud and software-as-a-service environments. Founded in 2019, Mitiga offers a cloud and SaaS incident platform called IR2 ...

Yahoo Inc. announced today that it has spun out its enterprise artificial intelligence scaling engine Vespa as an independent company to broaden the accessibility of its technology platform. Vespa was created by Yahoo in 2005 following the acquisition of a small search company called AlltheWeb in 2003. The software was originally used to power Yahoo’s ...

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced the rollout of generative artificial intelligence-powered features for ad creatives in the Meta Ads Manager. Generative AI has witnessed a huge rise in various sectors over the last year, with machine learning algorithms capable of generating content spanning text, images and videos. The technology has often been praised for its ...

Microsoft Corp. announced today that OpenAI LP’s DALL-E 3 artificial intelligence image creation tool is now available to users via Bing Chat and Bing Create for free. DALL-E 3, launched by OpenAI on Sept. 20, is the latest addition to a series of image-generating neural networks that the company introduced in 2021. OpenAI says DALL-E 3 ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. customers will be required to use multifactor authentication to log into their AWS Management Console starting i mid-2024 in a move designed to strengthen the security posture of AWS. The announcement today was made by Steve Schmidt, vice president of security engineering and chief security officer at Amazon, who explained in a post ...

Google LLC today announced that it’s introducing new requirements for bulk email senders with an aim to help keep Gmail safe, user-friendly and spam-free. The new requirements, set to be introduced by February 2024, are designed to tackle spam and malicious emails. In a blog post, Neil Kumaran, group product manager of Gmail security and trust, ...

Data management provider Cohesity Inc. today announced an expansion to its Data Security Alliance ecosystem with the addition of leading data security posture management vendors to identify and locate previously unknown data repositories and mitigate associated security and privacy risks. Cohesity launched the Data Security Alliance in November. The initial members of the alliance included a long ...

Kubernetes optimization and management platform startup PerfectScale Inc. announced today that it has raised $7.1 million in new funding to expedite its pace of innovation and expand its sales and marketing infrastructure. Founded in 2021, PerfectScale’s Autonomous Optimization and Governance Platform has been designed to streamline so-called Day 2 operations — managing and optimizing an application ...