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Security-software stocks soared Friday, as investors bet that the fallout from one of the most devastating hacks in U.S. history will lead to increased security spending by companies and government agencies. The breach was executed through a vulnerability in ubiquitous network-monitoring software from SolarWinds Inc. SWI, -19.43%, which hackers believed …

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images Twitter Inc. shares were little changed in after-hours trading Thursday as the social-media platform experienced a massive and as-yet-unexplained outage. Twitter’s feed went down around 5:30 p.m. Eastern, with users unable to post new tweets or see anything posted past that time. Service …