Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced the availability of a new solution that detects and disrupts phishing sites, fake stores and brand impersonations. Brand Protector allows organizations to retain and grow customer loyalty while minimizing loss, drops in productivity and bad customer feedback. Akamai Brand Protector inspects trillions of digital activities ...

A group of operational technology cybersecurity leaders and critical infrastructure companies today launched a new open-source, vendor-agnostic technology platform for sharing anonymous early-warning threat information across industries with peers and governments. Called ETHOS, for Emerging THreat Open Sharing, the platform is designed to give critical industries a vendor-neutral option for information sharing to combat the increasing number ...

Anti-fraud collaboration platform startup FiVerity Inc. said today it has raised $4 million in new funding to expand its network of information providers and data while introducing advanced machine learning algorithms. Founded in 2017, FiVerity offers artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions that detect new and emerging forms of cyber fraud for financial institutions. The company’s platform ...

Real-time event and risk detection company Dataminr Inc. today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence cybersecurity offering designed to deliver actionable intelligence on real-time risks and cyber-physical threats to corporate enterprises. Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk provides enterprises with a cross-functional product suite that enables chief information security officers and their teams to ...

A successful breach of videoconferencing and business phone company 3CX Ltd. first reported last month was caused by a software supply chain attack on a third party, Google LLC’s Mandiant has revealed for the first time. The 3CX breach was first detected by customers about March 22 but only came to light a week later ...

The nonprofit Center for Internet Security Inc. today announced the launch of a new alliance to help advance security and resilience for the broader technology ecosystem, with an emphasis on the public sector. The CIS and Google Cloud Alliance seeks to address the problem wherein public sector organizations are particularly susceptible to cyberattacks because of their limited ...

Cybersecurity startup Halcyon Tech Inc. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its cyber resilience platform. SYN Ventures led the Series A round, with Dell Technologies Capital and Corner Ventures also participating. Including the new round, Halycon has raised $70 million to date, according to data from ...

Shares in Tesla Inc. dropped by over 6% in late trading after the electric car and solar panel maker reported slightly lower-than-expected revenue and earnings in its fiscal first quarter. For the quarter that ended March 31, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 85 cents on revenue of $23.33 billion. Analysts were expecting 86 ...

Shares in F5 Inc. dropped in late trading today after the application security firm announced layoffs and reported lower-than-expected guidance. The multicloud security and application delivery firm did, however, top estimates in its latest quarterly earnings report. For its fiscal second quarter, F5 reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $154 million, or $2.53 per ...

Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub today announced two new tools aimed at helping developers ensure the integrity of their projects and secure the software supply chain. The first new tool, private vulnerability reporting, is now generally available and designed to help open-source maintainers and security researchers embrace best practices to report and fix vulnerabilities. The private collaboration channel ...