Industrial cybersecurity and asset monitoring startup SynSaber Inc. has raised $13 million in new funding to continue development, expand its global footprint and build on its customer momentum and industry research. SYN Ventures led the Series A round, with Rally Ventures and Cyber Mentor Fund also participating. Including the new funding, SynSaber has raised $15.5 million to date. Founded ...

North Carolina-based healthcare provider Novant Health has informed its 1.3 million patients that their protected health information may have been compromised, but in a twist, the breach stems from the use of Meta Platforms Inc. tracking pixels. The health system, which services four U.S. states, had been using Meta tracking pixels — JavaScript code that ...

Apple Inc. is expected to hold a launch event on Sept. 7 for its iPhone 14 range, according to noted Apple analyst Mark Gurman at Bloomberg. Referencing people with knowledge of the matter, Gurman said the event will also include the launch of three Apple Watch models with the possibility of new iPads and Macs. ...

Shares in Synopsys Inc. rose in late trading after the electronic design automation company reported better-than-expected earnings. For its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, Synopsys reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $327.4 million, or $2.10 per share, up from $284.5 million, or $1.81 per share, in the same quarter of ...

Developer cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. is warning some customers today that their email addresses may have been exposed following a new data breach at Intuit Inc.-owned email marketing provider Mailchimp. The breach, the second this year after an earlier one in April, was disclosed by Mailchimp in a notice published Aug. 12. The breach was described only ...

Argentina’s Judiciary of Córdoba has been forced to suspend its information technology services after being targeted in a ransomware attack. The attack is reported to have taken place on Aug. 13 and involves a fairly new ransomware group going by the name of “Play.” Bleeping Computer reported Monday that as a result of the attack, judiciary ...

Apple Inc. has reportedly laid off contract-based recruiters as part of a push to slow hiring and spending. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that Apple has laid off about 100 recruiters in its offices in Texas, Singapore and other locations because of changes in the company’s business needs. ...

Federated machine learning startup integrate.ai today announced the availability of its privacy-preserving machine learning and analytics platform. The new integrate.ai platform users federated learning and differential privacy technologies to unlock a range of machine learning and analytics capabilities on data that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to access because of privacy, confidentiality or technical ...

An annual survey by Okta Inc. finds that the embrace of zero-trust security is surging amid growing concern about cybersecurity challenges among enterprises. Okta’s State of Zero Trust Security 2022 report released today, based on a survey of 700 security leaders, found that nearly all organizations surveyed have either already started a zero-trust initiative or have ...

A new report from backup monitoring and reporting company Bocada LLC finds that information technology professionals are faced with new challenges in the critical task of backups. The firm’s recent survey found that the wide variety of backup environments as well as data volume growth will continue driving backup monitoring difficulties. Securing data across backup ...