Guardian News & Media Ltd., the publisher of the U.K. newspaper The Guardian, has been struck by a suspected ransomware attack. Details of the suspected ransomware attack were fittingly published today by The Guardian, which said that the “incident” began late Tuesday night U.K. time and had affected parts of the company’s technology infrastructure. The online ...

Deep Voodoo, an artificial intelligence entertainment startup founded by “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, revealed today that it has raised $20 million in funding to accelerate its development of deepfake technology, cost-effective visual effects services and synthetic media projects. Connect Ventures and New Enterprise Associates led the round. If you’ve never heard of ...

German multinational industrial engineering and steel production company ThyssenKrupp AG said today that it’s fending off a cyberattack against its Materials Services division and corporate headquarters. The form of attack was not disclosed. A spokesperson told Agence France Presse only that “Thyssenkrupp is currently the target of a cyberattack — presumably by organized crime” and that ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped slightly in after-hours trading today despite the company beating analyst’ expectations for its latest quarterly earnings. For the third quarter that ended Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported a net loss of $4 million, or a penny per share, on revenue of $169 million, down from a net profit of $74 million, ...

Identity and access control startup PlainID Inc. today launched a new network designed to deliver technology that helps organizations securely transform their authorization and access control. The PlainID Technology Network, developed with PlainID partners, offers identity-aware security across all segments of the enterprise technology stack by optimizing integration with mission-critical adjacent technologies. The goal of the service ...

Twitter Inc. today announced Twitter Blue for Business, a new verification service that allows businesses and their affiliates to verify and distinguish themselves on the service. Twitter Blue initially launched in the U.S. in November 2021 as a $ 2.99-per-month service that offered subscribers a range of features meant to improve Twitter’s standard service. Blue, at ...

The Linux Foundation has today announced that its AgStack project will host a new open-source code base and computation engine that offers a data dataset of registry data for agricultural fields to aid in food traceability, carbon tracking, crop production and other field-level analytics. The computation engine is fully automated and creates, maintains and hosts the ...

Venture capital invested into startups in 2023 is expected to fall, but it’s not all bad news, according to the 2023 U.S. Venture Capital Outlook published today by PitchBook Data Inc. In 2023, PitchBook analysts predict, venture growth deal value will fall below $50 billion thanks to a decline in investment in late-stage and more ...

Educational publishing company McGraw-Hill Education Inc. has exposed the details of hundreds of thousands of students in another case of a company failing to secure its Amazon Web Services Inc. storage. Discovered by researchers at vpnMentor, McGraw Hill was found to have two AWS S3 buckets exposed to all and sundry. One production bucket was ...

Nasdaq-listed sports betting company DraftKings Inc. has revealed that nearly 68,000 customers had their personal information exposed in a credential-stuffing attack in November. A credential-stuffing attack is a type of cyberattack where an attacker uses stolen account credentials from other hacks to gain access to a third-party system. The attack method relies on the unfortunate ...