Business risk intelligence startup Flashpoint said today it has acquired vulnerability and data breach intelligence company Risk Based Security Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, RBS identifies risks to an organization’s most valuable assets through a combination of security intelligence and big data analytics. The company claims its services provide actionable insight into cybersecurity risks, even ...

Microsoft Corp. has hired a veteran chip designer from Apple Inc. as part of an effort to design its own chips. Bloomberg reported today that Mike Filippo joined Microsoft after nearly three years at Apple. According to his LinkedIn profile, Filippo previously spent 10 years at Arm Ltd. Prior to that, he worked at Intel Corp. ...

Israeli cloud data security posture management platform startup Eureka today launched out of stealth mode with $8 million in seed funding. YL Ventures led the round, with renowned security executives and serial entrepreneurs also participating. Founded by Palo Alto Networks Inc. veterans Liat Hayun and Asaf Weiss, Eureka’s service is designed to enable security teams to mitigate ...

The annual CB Insights State of Venture report has been published and despite COVID-19 or perhaps because of it, it was a stellar year for funding as records were smashed all around. One takeaway is that perhaps the tech industry last year looked like 1999. Whether that’s going to be followed by a crash is ...

European Uber Technologies Inc. rival Bolt Technology OÜ has raised €628m ($711 million) in new funding to accelerate its stated mission to help cities transform urban areas into sustainable, people-friendly spaces. Sequoia Capital and Fidelity led the Series F round, with Whale Rock and Owl Rock also participating. The round was raised on a valuation of €7.4B ...

NTT Security AppSec Solutions Inc. today announced a solution that enables enterprises to conduct dynamic application security testing at each phase of the development cycle and prevent exploitable vulnerabilities from reaching production. Vantage Prevent, the next phase of the WhiteHat Vantage Platform, is designed to leverage developers’ functional and quality assurance tests to identify exploitable security ...

Japanese conglomerate Panasonic Corp. has disclosed that job applicant and business partner data were stolen in a breach that the company first revealed in November. The company still didn’t reveal the exact details of how the data breach took place in its Jan. 7 announcement, instead referring to the incident as unauthorized access to a ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that hackers are sending malicious USB thumb drives via mail to companies hoping that recipients will use them and hence infect their networks. The malware by mail campaign is being linked to the FIN7 cybercrime gang. “Since August 2021, the FBI has received reports of several packages containing ...

Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. today said it had acquired artificial intelligence-powered data protection firm Dathena Science Pte. Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2016 and based in Singapore, Dathena offers a platform that evaluates data sensitivity, protects data and enables companies to meet compliance demands. Pitched as delivering data protection and privacy with confidence and ...

A newly discovered vulnerability in H2 database consoles could allow remote code execution, similarly to the recently rampant Log4j “Log4Shell” vulnerability. H2 is an open-source relational database management system written in Java. It can be embedded in Java applications or run in client-server mode. H2 is popular as a lightweight in-memory solution that does not ...