Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly set to be hit with its first European Union antitrust fine in tying Marketplace, the Facebook classified service, to Facebook itself. Reuters, referencing people with direct knowledge of the matter, claims that Meta could be fined as much as $13.4 billion, or 10% of its 2023 global revenue, although the ...

A new report out today from Cisco Talos finds that business email compromise and ransomware were the top threats in the second quarter of 2024, with technology companies becoming the most targeted sector. The Cisco Talos Incident Response Trends Q2 2024 (April-June) report, based on incident response engagements undertaken by Cisco Talos, found that BEC ...

Hackers have reportedly leaked stolen internal documents from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest information technology services providers to the U.S. government and notably a Pentagon contractor. Bloomberg, referencing a person familiar with the matter, claims that Leidos recently learned of the issue and believes that the documents were stolen as part of a ...

Unified security remediation platform startup Dazz Inc. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to fuel its mission to help security and engineering teams efficiently reduce exposures. Founded and launched in 2021 by co-founders who included two former Microsoft Corp. security executives, Dazz offers a cloud security platform that helps security ...

Shares in financial service provider OneStream Inc. closed their first day trading up more than 34% after making their debut on the Nasdaq this morning, in what could be a positive sign for tech-related initial public offerings going forward. OneStream filed its paperwork to go public on July 15, with the company initially offering 24.5 million ...

Business communications service provider Dialpad Inc. today announced the release of a new version of “Ai Sales,” its artificial intelligence sales platform, that helps make it easier for sellers to sell. Powered by DialpadGPT, Dialpad’s large language model, Ai Sales leverages more than 6 billion minutes of business conversations from meetings, phone calls and digital channels to ...

Artificial intelligence-powered cloud risk resolution platform startup ZEST Security Inc. today launched with $5 million in funding to develop and scale up its platform. The company was founded by Snir Ben Shimol and Uri Aronovici (pictured), both former Israeli Defense Forced Intelligence officers with experience at companies including Akamai Technologies Inc. and Varonis Systems Inc. ...

A new study released today by cybersecurity firm NetRise Inc. warns that vulnerability risks associated with network equipment are far greater than previously understood. NetRise’s third-quarter supply chain visibility and risk study for network equipment, based on the analysis of more than 100 different networking equipment devices, found that traditional network-based vulnerability scanners significantly underreport the ...

Researchers from security operations company Ontinue AG today are warning of a new PlugX Remote Access Trojan campaign that is targeting Steam users. PlugX is a RAT malware family that has been around since 2008 and is used as a backdoor to control a victim’s machine. Once an infection takes place, a hacker can remotely execute ...

Artificial intelligence-powered call center services startup Level AI today announced that it has raised $39.4 million in new funding to scale its product offering and increase its headcount. Founded in 2019, Level AI specializes in enhancing customer experiences in contact centers through AI that integrates human and machine intelligence to provide real-time insights. The company’s ...