Filip Kaliszan, CEO of Verkada. Courtesy: Verkada Security technology startup Verkada has reached a $5.8 billion valuation after a new funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s venture capital arm, announced Wednesday. “I think Google saw the opportunity with us in the application of AI and everything we’re driving to apply AI to the physical security…
Okta on Tuesday topped Wall Street’s third-quarter estimates and issued an upbeat outlook, but shares fell despite the outperformance as investors had high hopes for AI demand. Shares of the identity management provider fell more than 3% in after-hours trading on Tuesday. Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: 82 cents…
It’s safe to say that no one is crazy about passwords. For chief information security officers, there’s the nightmare of employees leaving lists of passwords on their desks or putting them on Post-it notes on their computers. For workers, there’s the inconvenience of having to enter multiple passwords to gain access to various devices and…
Chief executive officer at Palo Alto Networks Inc., Nikesh Arora attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles on June 11, 2025, in Paris. Chesnot | Getty Images Palo Alto Networks beat Wall Street’s fiscal first-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday and announced…
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s social media platform X appear to have been affected by the Cloudflare issues, according to Downdetector, which itself could not be accessed for some…
Govini founder Eric Gillespie urged a person who he believed to be a dad offering his 10-year-old daughter to be sexually abused to use encrypted chat platforms, a Pennsylvania criminal complaint alleges. “Signal is safer for er small talk,” Gillespie wrote to the purported father, who was actually an undercover law-enforcement agent, according to a…
Almost a year into the second Trump administration, public sector leaders and cybersecurity experts say budget cuts and gutting of federal agencies are weakening critical lines of government communication to help companies prepare and respond to cyberattacks, even as AI threats are rising. The most recent assessment of cybersecurity, based on the goals set forward…
A general view of JLR signage at the Jaguar Land Rover vehicle manufacturing plant in Castle Bromwich on September 30, 2025 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Christopher Furlong | Getty Images News | Getty Images A major cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover, considered the most expensive security breach in British history, has prompted experts to question…
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images U.S. cybersecurity company F5 fell 12% on Thursday after disclosing a system breach in which a “highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor” gained long-term access to some systems. F5 shares were pacing for the worst day since April 27, 2022, when the stock fell 12.8%. The…
CrowdStrike , already one of our best stocks this year, has more room to run, according to Jim Cramer and a major Wall Street firm. Wells Fargo on Wednesday added CrowdStrike to its “tactical ideas list” and raised its price target to $600 a share from $550, implying more than 22% upside from the stock’s…
