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 ...

A security researcher has uncovered vulnerabilities in the New York Times-owned online game Wordle that not only reveal the solution to the daily word puzzle but also expose its application programming interface to potential hacking. Detailed today by David Thompson, a security researcher at Noname Security under the title of “Tomorrow’s Wordle is ‘PWNED!’,” the ...

Updated: Twitter appears to have backtracked on its ban. It deleted tweets announcing the new policy that banned users from posting links and handles to other social networks and also removed the page detailing the rules. Twitter Inc. has banned promotional links to rival social networks as Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has decided to run a ...

Viewers watching the World Cup game between France and Morocco on the streaming video service FuboTV had their viewing interrupted following what the company described as a “criminal cyber attack.” The exact form of attack was not disclosed. FuboTV said the incident was not related to any bandwidth constraints on its part. Ticking the standard ...

The second meeting of the U.S. Joint Ransomware Task Force held on Wednesday assessed measures and efforts to address the impact and prevalence of ransomware attacks. Jointly chaired by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation, the JRTF was founded by Congress as an interagency body to strengthen efforts against the ongoing ...

A database belonging to InfraGard, a partnership between the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector to promote the protection of critical infrastructure, has been stolen and was offered for sale on a cybercrime forum. First reported Dec. 13 by Brian Krebs, the database contains information on InfraGard’s over 80,0000 members. The stolen data ...

Microsoft Corp. has banned customers from using Azure services for cryptocurrency mining unless pre-approval is granted. The change in the Universal License Terms for Online policy came into effect on Dec. 1 but was unnoticed at the time until it was highlighted in an Azure Solution Area post. The post , widely reported today, states ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems cybersecurity startup Protect AI has today emerged from stealth mode with $13.5 million in new funding and its first product, NB Defense. NB Defense is a free product that’s claimed to be the industry’s first security solution to address vulnerabilities in a core component used at the beginning of ...