Cybersecurity insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. today announced the launch of its new Adaptive Cyber Insurance product and a new subsidiary, Cowbell Specialty Insurance Co. Adaptive Cyber Insurance is pitched as offering a dynamic approach to insuring constantly changing risk. Cowbell argues that the dynamic nature of cyber risk requires insurance policies to evolve accordingly, so the new product ...

Nasdaq Inc. is expanding its interest in cryptocurrency with a new group dedicated to digital assets that will initially launch a cryptocurrency custody service. Despite some reports referencing only unnamed sources, Tal Cohen, Nasdaq’s executive vice president and head of Northern American markets, has confirmed the exchange’s plans. The new digital assets group is headed by ...

American Airlines Group Inc. has suffered a data breach in which personal details of customers and employees were potentially stolen. Disclosed by AA in a letter to victims on Sept. 16, the breach is described as involving an authorized actor compromising the email accounts of a limited number of AA team members in July. The ...

Nvidia Corp. today announced Nvidia Drive Thor, a next-generation automotive-grade system-on-a-chip for safe and secure autonomous vehicles, at its virtual GTC 2022 conference. Built on the latest central processing unit and graphics processing unit advances, Drive Thor archives up to 2,000 teraflops of performance while unifying intelligent functions, including automated and assisted driving, parking, driver and occupant monitoring, ...

Cloud-based solar power project management startup Enact Systems Inc. today raised $11.5 million in new funding to accelerate its plan to support the global climate transition and boost the adoption of renewable generation globally. Energy Growth Momentum led the Series A round with NB Ventures, ARKA Venture Labs, Olympus Capital and Alumni Venture Funds also participating. Including the new ...

The rise of quantum computing is well-documented, and with experts predicting that true quantum computing — not existing so-called quantum computing solutions — is only years away, businesses are starting to become concerned about the security implications. One of the core concerns is that true quantum computers will be able to decrypt any and all ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. announced today that its Falcon Insight product is now Falcon Insight XDR and that it has added additional third-party telemetry from partners and third-party providers to enhance its extended detection and response capabilities. The new Falcon Insight XDR name reflects the addition of XDR to the service, enabling customers to leverage the power ...

Google LLC today announced that virtual machine support in Anthos is now generally available, allowing customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform. The addition of VM support in Anthos allows developers and operations teams to run VMs alongside containers on shared cloud-native infrastructure. The service is said to deliver ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced the new CrowdStrike Powered Service Provider program designed to help service providers unlock broader value-added solution bundles, enhance profitability and expand their routes to market. Pitched as addressing the challenge of needing technologies that provide predictable and scalable security outcomes due to increasing security threats, the new CPSP program taps into the ...

A new report from VMWare Inc.’s Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response Team today details the rise of the highly prevalent ChromeLoader malware, its ongoing evolution and the serious risk it poses to both individuals and businesses. ChromeLoader, which was first discovered in January, typically drops as a .iso optical disk image and is used ...