Identity security platform startup Stack Identity Inc. today announced Shadow Access Risk Assessment Freemium, a free service that provides users with a daily report of shadow access risks in their environment. Shadow access risk — the risk posed by unauthorized access to information technology resources and systems when employees use unauthorized devices, applications, or credentials to ...

New York-based assembly work instructions software startup Dirac Inc. launched today with the beta release of its first product, BuildOS. Pitched as bringing work instructions into the 21st century, BuildOS has been designed to address the issue wherein assembly work instructions take weeks or months of manual, mind-numbing effort. Dirac argues that figuring out what order ...

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced major advancements to its cloud-native security information and event management platform aimed at rounding out its ability to detect, investigate and respond to potential threats within a security operations center. The new release has a foundation of incident response. Security teams can now leverage Axon to automate team workflows through ...

The U.S. National Security Agency has announced the creation of a new entity to oversee the development and integration of artificial intelligence capabilities within U.S. national security systems. The new NSA AI Security Center has been designed to become a focal point for developing best practices for evaluating methodology and risk frameworks, with an aim ...

Network security company IronNet Inc. has ceased operations two years after it became a publicly traded company through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company. The disclosure came via a Sept. 29 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. IronNet said that given that it had run out of money, it had ceased all ...

As regular as the day becomes night, scammers are always on the lookout for new opportunities, and according to a new report today, that new opportunity is Microsoft Corp.’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bing Chat. Malwarebytes Labs wrote that scammers are now targeting Bing Chat users with malicious ads within the chatbot. Ads can be inserted into ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today provided details of a previously unknown internal suite of tools known internally as “MadPot” that the company is using to detect and successfully thwart thousands of cyberattacks. MadPot has its origins in the late 2010s and uses intelligence gathered from a vast array of sensors deployed across AWS infrastructure. It monitors ...

Generative artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Nexusflow.ai Inc. today announced that it has raised $10.6 million in new funding in a round led by Point72 Ventures LP, with Fusion Fund LLC and a number of individual investors also participating. Nexusflow was founded by Professor Jiantao Jiao (pictured, center), Professor Kurt Keutzer (left) from the Berkeley AI Research ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. rose slightly in late trading today after the Canadian software company delivered mixed earnings results. For its fiscal second quarter ended Aug. 31, BlackBerry reported an adjusted loss of $28 million, or four cents per share, a slight improvement on a loss of $29 million, or five cents a share, in ...

The U.S. and Japanese governments have issued a warning over an alleged Chinese-linked hacking group that is actively targeting and exploiting routers, particularly those from Cisco Systems Inc. The joint advisory was issued today by the U.S. National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Japan National Police Agency ...