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Is didn't surprise me because doing this season a man jacob applebaum a key pillars of wikileak, a celebrated online privacy advocate won of the developers of the privacy software that enabled wikileaks to move information securely. he was a darling of the left. a die hard bernie sanders supporter. and like julian assange, he was targeted when, you know, this country and others went after wikileaks and became up comfortable having wikileaks out there. and what jacob said to me when i was talking to him, when i was interviewing him, one of the things that really stood out he said, you know, eve...

Jan. 12, 2021 10:59 pm ET A breach at email security provider Mimecast Inc. underscores that Russia-linked hackers appear to have targeted victims along multiple avenues of attack in what is shaping up to be one of the most successful cyber campaigns of U.S. government and corporate systems. The attack potentially adds thousands of victims to the yearslong intelligence operation and likely aimed at gaining access to email systems, security experts say. Mimecast, in a Tuesday blog post, said the hackers were able to obtain a digital certificate used by the company to access its custom...

Analysts say cyber-security stocks’ gains can continue. Dreamstime Security stocks had a huge run in 2020, with an extra boost from the end-of-the-year revelation of the “Sunburst” hack attack on software company SolarWinds that left almost 18,000 of their customers vulnerable. Analysts see further gains ahead in 2021, as the attack drives some companies to prioritize spending on detection, preventing and addressing cyber-security issues. Wall Street has been ratcheting up its estimates, stock ratings and price targets in response. On Tuesday, two more analysts joined the...

The attack that may have exposed 18,000 SolarWinds’ customers also brought a lot of attention to the importance of cybersecurity. That had Wall Street analysts revising their views of the industry and the stocks.

Engaged Capital initiated a 9.96% position in the health-care, administrative-services tech firm, equal to 8,553,155 Evolent Health shares. That position has remained unchanged, as noted by Engaged Capital’s latest disclosure. What has changed is that Engaged and Evolent entered into a cooperation agreement as of Dec. 21. Per the agreement, Evolent will increase the size of its board by one to accommodate the appointment of an Engaged representative to serve until at least next year’s annual shareholders meeting. Engaged Capital will abide by customary standstill agreements, and will limi...