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Club stock Palo Alto Networks dropped Thursday evening on a strong quarter and a solid full-year outlook that were not good enough to satisfy investors’ lofty expectations. Revenue for the cybersecurity company’s fiscal 2025 second quarter increased 14% year over year to $2.26 billion, exceeding the LSEG-complied Wall Street consensus estimate of $2.24 billion. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) increased …

A marketing campaign from the language teaching app Duolingo is inadvertently phishing users for their credit card numbers.  The marketing stunt involves Duolingo’s account on Twitter/X, which has over 930,000 followers. On Tuesday, the account announced that the app’s owl mascot, Duo, had died under mysterious circumstances.  “Authorities are currently investigating his cause of death and we are cooperating fully. …

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has revealed that credit card transactions of Australians reached a record high of AU$28.1 billion during the Christmas season, with AU$17.8 billion now being charged interest. This huge amount of credit card debt has left many households struggling to pay off their growing bills. In total, credit and debit card spending for December exceeded …

Swiss banking giant UBS said it remained on track to substantially wrap up its mega-merger with Credit Suisse by the end of 2026, after once again posting better-than-expected quarterly results on Tuesday. Switzerland’s biggest bank reported a net profit of $770 million for the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with a $279 million loss in the same period a year …

Casio UK’s e-shop at casio.co.uk was hacked to include malicious scripts that stole credit card and customer information between January 14 and 24, 2025. Any customers who made purchases between those dates may have had their personal details and credit card data stolen by hackers. The incident was discovered by JSCrambler, who notified Casio on January 28. The malicious script was removed from …

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech today, announced that her government will provide ID cards to gig workers. Gig workers will also be provided access to healthcare via a social security scheme. She said her government will invest in street vendors and online and urban workers. Gig workers of online platforms to be provided with identity cards and …

Budget 2025: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1st came out with good news for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s) in India. Sitharaman in her eighth budget speech stated that the credit guarantee cover limits and provisions for the sector are going to be enhanced. Further, for micro enterprises i.e., MSMEs the credit guarantee cover is going …

“If a criminal gets that card number and tries to use it, it just won’t work,” Mastercard head of security solutions Johan Gerber said. “We’re trying to render the data useless to cyber criminals so there’s just no desire to hack it any more.” Gerber said Australia was responsible for around a quarter of fraud detected by Mastercard globally. Fraud …

“If a criminal gets that card number and tries to use it, it just won’t work,” Mastercard head of security solutions Johan Gerber said. “We’re trying to render the data useless to cyber criminals so there’s just no desire to hack it any more.” Gerber said Australia was responsible for around a quarter of fraud detected by Mastercard globally. Fraud …

If you scored a federal tax credit when buying an electric car at the dealership, congratulations! But you’re not done yet. You still need to declare that credit on your annual taxes, using the Clean Vehicle Credit Form 8936 and Schedule A of the form, H&R Block tells PCMag. However, if you received the credit but your annual income exceeds …