Email and collaboration security startup Perception Point Inc. today announced a new partnership with software-as-a-service technology company Cloudinary Ltd. to deliver advanced threat protection to Cloudinary customers. Under the partnership, Cloudinary customers can now protect their websites and services with the Perception Point malware detection add-on, available on the Cloudinary App Store. The service allows users to upload ...

Enterprise network-as-a-service startup Nile Global Inc. today announced a series of new security capabilities designed to protect against threats plaguing wired and wireless networks. The company, co-founded by former Cisco Systems Inc. executives John Chambers and Pankaj Patel, launched out of stealth mode in September with a new enterprise networking platform based on zero-trust security principles. The company’s ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Spera Cybersecurity Ltd. today announced that it has raised $10 million in new funding in a seed round led by YL Ventures GP Ltd. that included angel investors and serial entrepreneurs from Google LLC, Palo Alto Networks Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Zendesk Inc., Zscaler Inc. and others. Founded by cybersecurity veterans Dor Fledel ...

Data security and privacy company Protegrity USA Inc. today announced the launch of a new secure, compliant cross-border data flows solution for large global enterprises. The Protegrity Borderless Data Solution brings together a suite of data security tools designed to help banks, retailers and health insurers continue to reap the benefits of their investments in globalization in ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warns that criminal actors are using business email compromise schemes to facilitate the acquisition of a wide range of commodities. BEC attacks, an attack method that involves fraud enabled by social engineering, are not new. A report in September found that one-third of all cyberattacks now involve BEC, but ...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order today banning government agencies from using commercial spyware deemed to present a national security risk to the United States. The order imposes a ban on agencies using such commercial tools “when they determine, based on credible information, that such use poses significant counterintelligence or security risks to the ...

Twitter Inc. is attempting to identify the person who leaked parts of its proprietary source code after it was discovered to have been shared on GitHub for at least three months. The news that the source code had been leaked came after Twitter filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice with GitHub on Friday, demanding ...

WebAssembly startup Dylibso Inc. today announced that it has raised $6.6 million in new funding to help teams take WebAssembly to production. WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and a virtual machine that brings high performance to web browser applications, enabling developers to build high-speed web apps in whatever language they choose. Founded in 2022, Dylibso is the ...

Twitter Inc. today announced that it will revoke “legacy” verified badges in April as it made its Twitter Blue paid verification service available globally. Twitter Blue initially launched in November 2021 but underwent a shakeup a year later under the ownership of Elon Musk. Musk shifted what was originally meant to be a service offering ...

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew met with the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce today and the five hours of questioning went as well as expected in that most, if not all, participants had already made their minds up on the future of the highly popular service. Chew faced a range of questions ...