Kevin Mitnick, who was the world’s best-known hacker for a period before becoming a well-respected white-hat hacker, has passed away following a battle with pancreatic cancer at age 59. Born in Los Angeles in 1963, Mitnick had an early history in hacking, changing the grades of his friends on a Los Angeles school computer system ...

A cyberattack on cloud directory-as-a-service provider JumpCloud Inc. that first came to light earlier this month has been attributed to a North Korean hacking group. According to a blog post from JumpCloud last week, the attack was first detected as “anomalous activity on an internal orchestration system,” which was traced back to a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign by a ...

React-based product onboarding and adoption solution startup Frigade Inc. has raised $2.7 million in new funding to grow its library of onboarding experiences for developers and support additional web software development kits for business-to-business software-as-a-service companies. Founded in 2022, Frigade offers a product onboarding and adoption solution for React. Also known as React.js or ReactJS, React is an open-source ...

Privacy management software startup Osano Inc. today announced the launch of the multilevel Osano Privacy Maturity Model alongside a new Data Mapping product designed to help organizations understand where personal information is being stored, mitigate risks and grow mature privacy programs. The company’s Privacy Program Maturity Model serves as a framework and guide for organizations to evaluate ...

Large language model data processing startup Unstructured Technologies Inc. has raised $25 million in new funding to expand its operations and business reach. Founded in 2022 by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst Brian Raymond, Unstructured offers a platform that allows companies to convert their unstructured internal data into formats that are compatible with large language models, ...

Shares in Tesla Inc. dropped by over 4% in late trading despite the electric car and solar panel maker beating analyst expectations in its latest quarterly results. For its fiscal second quarter that ended June 30, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 90 cents, up 20%, on revenue of $24.93 billion, up 47% year-over-year. Analysts ...

A new report from cybersecurity training services company Hoxhunt Ltd. released today surprisingly finds that critical infrastructure employees are becoming more engaged in organizational security. The “Human Cyber-Risk Report: Critical Infrastructure” was compiled based on examining more than 15 million phishing simulations and actual email attacks reported in 2022 by 1.6 million individuals involved in security behavior change programs. The ...

Leading cloud service, semiconductor and system providers joined forces today to launch the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, a new consortium for industrywide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high-performance networking. The consortium seeks to cater to the evolving demands of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads, which need top-tier functionality, performance and interoperability ...

A new report from Google LLC’s AI Red Team today explores a critical capability that the search giant deploys to support its Secure AI Framework: red teaming. Google released its Secure AI Framework in June to help companies protect artificial intelligence models from hacking. The framework is aimed at ensuring that when AI models are implemented, ...

A new report from dependency lifecycle management startup Endor Labs Inc. has warned that artificial intelligence and large language models are unable to classify malware risk in most cases accurately. The “State of Dependency Management 2023” report, compiled by Endor’s Station 9 research team, explores emerging trends that software organizations need to consider as part of their ...