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PHOTO: ADAM VAUGHAN/SHUTTERSTOCK
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Jaguar Land Rover shut down some global applications after a cyber incident. "Our retail and production activities have been severely disrupted," the car maker said in a short statement on its website. The company, owned by India's Tata Motors, said it is working to restart systems. Local U.K. media reported that factory workers were told not to come in Monday. (Guardian)
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency restarted a contract with Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions. The contract was enacted in September 2024 and then put on hold days later, pending a decision on whether it violated a 2023 executive order from former President Joe Biden that curtailed the federal government's use of spyware. (Infosecurity Magazine)
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Data breaches: Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler are among the many businesses whose customer data was compromised in a widespread hack of AI bots from Salesloft. The bots, which are from Salesloft's acquisition last year of software maker Drift, are a companion product for customer relationship management systems from Salesforce.
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Salesloft's Drift bots were hacked a day after the company said on Aug. 8 that it planned to merge with rival Clari. (CyberScoop)
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PHOTO: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/GETTY
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Walt Disney will pay $10 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that claim the company unlawfully collected children’s data for targeted advertising.
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The FTC said Tuesday that Disney allowed personal data to be collected from children who viewed kid-directed videos on Alphabet’s YouTube without notifying parents or obtaining their consent as required by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. (WSJ)
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PHOTO: NIKKI RITCHER FOR WSJ
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Zscaler logged another sales jump in its fiscal fourth quarter and guided ahead of Wall Street expectations for the current fiscal year. Emerging risks from AI are driving new sources of demand, Chief Executive Jay Chaudhry said. The company posted a loss of $17.6 million in the quarter ended July 31, compared with $14.9 million a year earlier. Revenue rose 21% to $719.2 million. (WSJ)
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Data-security provider Varonis Systems said it bought email-security company SlashNext. SlashNext uses predictive AI to detect and remove suspicious email messages from inboxes.
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