Mobile identity verification and authentication solutions startup Prove Identity Inc. announced today that it has raised $40 million in new funding to launch new commerce enablement and fraud-fighting use cases, global expansion and to address the evolving threats faced by public and private institutions operating in the digital economy. Founded in 2008, Prove offers smartphone-based identity ...

Decentralized biometric identification platform startup Anonybit Inc. today announced that it has raised $3 million in new funding for its privacy-by-design identity management solutions to enterprises battling data breaches and account takeover attacks. Founded in 2020, Anonybit’s decentralized biometric identification platform is designed to protect personal data and digital assets. The company says its integrated ...

A new report from enterprise domain registrar CSC finds that despite the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, many of the Forbes Global 2000 do not control their .AI domain names or have not registered a .AI domain name for their business. The finding came from CSC’s 2023 Domain Security Report, which highlights that many companies remain ...

Cybersecurity firm Sophos Group plc today announced a new partnership with Boise State University’s Insitute for Pervasive Security to provide Boise State University access to Sophos’ endpoint security offerings to create experiential learning opportunities for students and assist in addressing the worldwide cybersecurity skill gap. The issues with a shortage of cybersecurity workers have been well-documented. A report from ...

Network automation platform startup BackBox Software Inc. today announced the launch of Network Vulnerability Manager, a new service that offers deep integration with vulnerability management for network teams. The new NVM, which is offered alongside BackBox’s existing Network Automation Platform, integrates automated operating system upgrades and network configuration management capabilities with network vulnerability management into ...

A new report from threat detection and response startup Vade Secure SASU finds a substantial increase in phishing and malware attacks in the third quarter, so large that the level of attacks is some of the highest ever recorded for any quarter. The Vade Q3 Phishing and Malware Report found that there was a 173% increase in phishing ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center today released a Cybersecurity Advisory over a recently disclosed vulnerability in Atlassian Corp.’s Confluence Data Center and Server that opens the door to malicious cyber threat actors. Tracked as CVE-2023-22515, the vulnerability has a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure ...

Cisco Systems Inc. is warning customers of its IOS XE devices of a critical vulnerability that has no patch and is actively being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20198, has been given the highest possible Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure score of 10 and is found in all Cisco IOS XE devices that have the ...

The Open Source Security Foundation today launched its Malicious Packages Repository, an open-source system for collecting and publishing cross-ecosystem reports of malicious packages. Claimed to be the first open-source system of its type, the repository was created in response to the rising number of attacks that include malicious open-source packages. Malicious packages, in terms of ...

Cloud data protection startup Nightfall AI today announced a new partnership with cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. to provide developers with artificial intelligence-powered secrets scanning capabilities. Secrets, in terms of what Nightfall scans for, are passwords, application programming interface keys, token and database credentials used by applications to validate users’ identities, ensure secure communications and provide access to privileged ...