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Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Orca Security Ltd. today filed a lawsuit against its Israeli rival Wiz Inc. claiming that Wiz has infringed its patents. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court, District of Delaware, claims that Wiz built its business on infrastructure that Orca …
JFrog’s new Curation solution automates security for open-source packages
Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today launched JFrog Curation, an automated DevSecOps solution that checks and blocks infected open-source or third-party software packages and their dependencies before they enter a company’s development pipeline. With a large proportion of modern software development relying heavily on …
ProcessUnity and CyberGRX unite to bolster third-party risk management
Third-party risk management companies ProcessUnity Inc. and CyberGRX Inc. announced today they will merge to create a comprehensive software and data platform designed to enhance identifying, assessing, analyzing and reducing risk within clients’ ecosystems. The merged companies said they will offer the combined capabilities …
Bugcrowd finds hackers are more skeptical about AI than Silicon Valley investors
Crowdsourced cybersecurity startup Bugcrowd Inc. has today released a new report that found hackers are more skeptical than Silicon Valley investors when it comes to artificial intelligence. Bugcrowd’s annual Inside the Mind of a Hacker report found that more than half of respondents, 55%, …
New ‘PyLoose’ fileless malware attacks target cloud workloads
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. today detailed a newly discovered Python-based fileless malware that’s targeting cloud workloads. Dubbed “PyLoose,” the attack is said to be the first publicly documented Python-based fileless attack targeting cloud workloads in the wild. A fileless attack does not rely …
Sophos partners with Cysurance to offer tailored cyber insurance for MDR customers
Cybersecurity firm Sophos Group plc today announced a new partnership with risk mitigation company Cysurance LLC to provide fixed-price cyber insurance to Sophos’ managed detection and response customers in the U.S. Cyber insurance isn’t new. Sophos, for example, already has a relationship with Cowbell …
Pinpoint: Cybersecurity funding dropped 55% in the second quarter
A new report today from cybersecurity recruit firm Pinpoint Search Group finds that venture capital funding of cybersecurity startups plummeted 55% in the second quarter of this year from a year ago. Pinpoint tracked 115 funding and merger and acquisition transactions in the cybersecurity …
Checkout.com introduces AI-powered Identity Verification service for enhanced security
Payments processing provider Checkout.com Inc. today launched its first product focused on improving the customer onboarding and identity verification process. Checkout.com’s new Identity Verification service uses artificial intelligence trained on billions of identity and facial recognition documents. The solution leverages an in-depth list of identification …
TPG Capital acquires Forcepoint’s government cybersecurity business for $2.45B
Buyout firm TPG Capital today said it will acquire the government business of cybersecurity company Forcepoint LLC for $2.45 billion, a figure higher than what the entirety of Forcepoint was acquired for by Francisco Partners in 2021. TPG is buying a unit …
Eviden and Alice & Bob partner to enhance quantum computing with cat qubit integration
Quantum computing company Eviden SAS, an Atos SE company, today announced a new partnership with French quantum computing startup Alice & Bob to integrate Alice & Bob’s cat qubit technology into Eviden’s quantum application development platform, Qaptiva. Named after the Schrödinger’s cat thought …