Apurva Venkat
Principal Correspondent
Apurva Venkat is principal correspondent for the India editions of CIO, CSO, and Computerworld. She has previously worked at ISMG, IDG India, Bangalore Mirror, and Business Standard, where she reported on developments in technology, businesses, startups, fintech, e-commerce, cybersecurity, civic news, and education.
Qualcomm buys Autotalks to boost SnapDragon Digital Chassis automotive product line
Qualcomm's acquisition of Israel-based Autotalks, estimated to be valued at $350 million to $400 million, is meant to bolster the Snapdragon Digital Chassis product line for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications.
AWS and Alexa services back online after outage
Users could not complete the account signup process and also received error messages on their billing console.
AT&T informs 9M customers about data breach
The company’s marketing vendor suffered a security failure in January and exposed CPNI data that included first names, wireless account numbers, wireless phone numbers, and email addresses.
Unpatched old vulnerabilities continue to be exploited: Report
The top five exploited vulnerabilities in 2022 include several high-severity flaws in Microsoft Exchange, Zoho ManageEngine products, and virtual private network solutions from Fortinet, Citrix and Pulse Secure.
Cyberattacks hit data centers to steal information from global companies
A malicious campaign against data centers stole the access credentials of some of the world's biggest companies — including Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Microsoft — according to reports.
New Mirai botnet variant V3G4 targets Linux servers, IoT devices
The new V3G4 variant of Mirai, which creates botnets for DDoS attacks, exploited 13 different vulnerabilities in three campaigns over a six-month period, Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 team reports.
MKS Instruments falls victim to ransomware attack
The semiconductor equipment maker reported the ransomware incident just a day after national cybersecurity agencies and security experts around the world warned about a global ransomware attack that hit thousands of servers running on...
Massive ransomware attack targets VMware ESXi servers worldwide
Cybersecurity agencies globally — including in Italy, France, the US and Singapore — have issued alerts about a ransomware attack targeting the VMware ESXi hypervisor.
Misconfiguration and vulnerabilities biggest risks in cloud security: Report
About 87% of container images include a high or critical vulnerability, while 90% of granted permissions are not used, according to cybersecurity firm Sysdig.
F5 expands security portfolio with App Infrastructure Protection
AIP goes one step further than API security and provides telemetry collection and intrusion detection for cloud-native workloads.
Microsoft Azure launches DDoS IP protection for SMBs
DDoS IP Protection for SMBs is designed to provide enterprise-grade distributed denial of service protection at a price that's attractive to small and medium-size companies.