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CISA creates vulnerability catalog to improve federal agencies’ cybersecurity
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today issued a binding operational directive that tackles vulnerabilities in federal agencies’ information technology systems. The directive has two main elements. First, CISA has created a catalog of more than 300 vulnerabilities that are being actively used by hackers to launch cyberattacks. Second, officials are instructing civilian federal ...
GitHub names product head Thomas Dohmke new CEO
Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub subsidiary today announced a leadership change, revealing that Chief Product Officer Thomas Dohmke will become chief executive effective Nov. 15. Dohmke (pictured) is taking over the reins from current CEO Nat Friedman, who has been at the helm for the past three years. Friedman was appointed to lead GitHub after the code ...
US Commerce Department sanctions spyware maker NSO Group and three others
The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that it has sanctioned four companies after finding they have engaged in malicious cybersecurity activities. The companies are Israel-based NSO Group and Candiru, Russia-based Positive Technologies and Singapore-based Computer Security Initiative Consultancy. The sanctions were applied by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. As a result, ...
Microsoft debuts new Azure virtual machines optimized for confidential computing
Microsoft Corp. today added two sets of virtual machines to its Azure public cloud that are designed to facilitate confidential computing, an increasingly popular approach to improving the security of enterprise applications. Confidential computing is a cybersecurity method whereby a server’s central processing unit turns a portion of the onboard memory into an isolated data ...
Dell upgrades hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio with new servers and software
Dell Technologies Inc. is upgrading its portfolio of hyperconverged infrastructure systems with faster servers that use latest-generation Intel Corp. silicon, as well as an enhanced version of Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Stack platform. Dell announced the updates against the backdrop of Microsoft’s Ignite 2021 event today, where the cloud giant debuted a number of improvements for ...
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises $600M at reported $8.6B valuation
Less than a year after closing its previous $500 million funding round, autonomous delivery startup Nuro Inc. today said that it has raised an additional $600 million to hire more employees and enhance its technology. Google LLC, SoftBank Group Corp. and several others participated in Nuro’s latest round alongside Tiger Global, which was the lead ...
AI optimization startup OctoML nabs $85M after key chipmaker partnerships
OctoML Inc., a startup founded by University of Washington computer scientists to make artificial intelligence models more efficient, today disclosed that it has closed a $85 million funding round. Lead investor Tiger Global Management was joined in the round by returning backers Addition, Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners. OctoML launched in 2019 to commercialize ...
Digital Currency Group reaches $10B valuation after $700M secondary sale
Digital Currency Group Inc., a conglomerate that owns several of the biggest players in the cryptocurrency ecosystem and has stakes in many others, is valued at $10 billion following a secondary sale announced this morning. In the secondary sale, a group of investors led by SoftBank Group Corp. bought shares from the company’s existing backers. ...
VMware completes its spinoff from Dell
VMware Inc. today became an independent company after completing its spinoff from former parent company Dell Technologies Inc., a move that has been in the works for several quarters. VMware, which has a market capitalization of more than $63 billion as of this morning, is a top provider of software for managing data center and ...
E-commerce technology startup Bolt Financial reportedly raising $777M round
Bolt Financial Inc., a rapidly growing startup that provides software for online retailers, is reportedly raising a new $777 million round of funding at a pre-money valuation of $10 billion to $11 billion. Bolt Financial’s plans were reported this morning by Axios, which attributed the information to multiple sources familiar with the matter. San Francisco-based ...