A new report released today by Crunchbase Inc. has revealed mixed results in the global venture capital marketplace in November, with funding down from October 2023 and November last year. In November, $19.2 billion was invested into startups, down 16% from the $23 million invested in November 2022, a figure which itself was down 67% ...

Two months after hackers offered stolen DNA profiles for sale on the infamous hacking site BreachForums, genetic testing company 23andMe Holding Co. has finally provided details of the hack via a regulatory filing. In an amendment filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, 23andMe said that after becoming aware of a threat ...

Application security operations startup ArmorCode Inc. announced today that it has closed a $40 million Series B round to advance its mission of helping companies ship secure software fast and at large scale. Founded in 2020, ArmorCode aims to “supercharge security teams” so organizations can ship secure software fast. It does so by transforming AppSec into a scalable ...

CoreWeave Inc. has sold a minority stake to investors led by Fidelity Management & Research LLC as the cloud computing provider continues to expand amid the ongoing growth in artificial intelligence. Investment Management Corp. of Ontario, Jane Street Capital LLC, JPMorgan Asset Management, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Goanna Capital LP and Zoom Ventures Partners LLC also participated ...

Open networking software startup Aviz Networks Inc. today announced that it has added Cisco Investments LLC to its latest funding round of $10 million to accelerate customer momentum for its multivendor generative artificial intelligence-based networking stack along with the adoption of the SONiC open-source network operating system. Founded in 2019, Aviz offers solutions for open, cloud ...

Information relating to nearly 2 million current and former employees of discount variety store company Dollar Tree Inc. has been stolen following a breach at a third-party provider. Details of the breach first emerged in a filing by Zeroed-In Technologies LLC with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, which stated that 1,997,486 people had ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new program at its re:Invent conference aimed at making it easier for customers, particularly small and medium-sized businesses, to find affordable policies from insurers. Called the AWS Cyber Insurance Competency, the program includes a new, simplified experience with the AWS Security Hub and partners that work with AWS to ...

Shares in PagerDuty Inc. rose nearly 7% in late trading today after the application observability platform provider delivered better-than-expected third-quarter earnings results. For the quarter that ended Oct. 31, PagerDuty reported adjusted earnings per share of 20 cents, up from a loss of four cents per share in the same quarter of last year, on revenue of ...

Google LLC has released an emergency security update for its Chrome browser following the discovery of a critical vulnerability that could open the door to attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-6345, is described as an integer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome before version 119.0.6045.199 that allows a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process ...

The U.S. government is investigating multiple attacks on municipal water suppliers that, in one case, is believed to have been orchestrated by an Iranian government-linked hacking group. The first attack occurred on Friday, Nov. 24, and involved the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in Pennsylvania. A group going by the name of “Cyber Av3ngers” claimed ...