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Google sets its sights on a huge deal. The tech giant is in talks to buy “Wiz”, a cybersecurity start-up, for $23-Billion. The move would bolster the company’s cloud-computing efforts. If successful, it would be Google’s largest acquisition ever. Next – AT&T reportedly paid a hacker $370,000 in Bitcoin to delete stolen customer data. Wired and Bloomberg report the hacker provided a video

Google, which became one of the world’s the most valuable companies through its search engine and other consumer internet services, is nearing its largest-ever acquisition to improve what it can offer to business customers. Google is in talks to buy Wiz, a New York-based cybersecurity start-up, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions, who were not authorized to discuss them

The call and text records of early all of AT&T's cellular network customers were exposed in a huge cybersecurity hack, the company revealed Friday. The company said in an SEC filing it learned from an internal investigation that in April, hackers "unlawfully accessed and copied AT&T call logs" that were saved on a third-party cloud platform. The data contains records of calls and texts

A security breach in 2022 compromised the data of nearly all of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers. So far it has found that the compromised data includes files containing AT&T records of calls and texts between May 1, 2022 and Oct. 31, 2022.