WhatsApp today launched a new pilot program allowing some users in the U.S. to send and receive cryptocurrency using Meta Platforms Inc.’s Novi digital wallet. Meta, previously Facebook, announced a pilot program for the Novi wallet in October but without support for the Diem cryptocurrency. Instead, the service is currently only offering support of USDP, a ...

Adobe Inc. has acquired social media marketing startup ContentCal for an undisclosed price, although Bloomberg reported today that the deal was for more than $100 million. Six-year-old ContentCal, incorporated as ContentCalendar Ltd., is a business-to-business software-as-a-service content marketing platform that pitches itself as allowing users to manage their social marketing planning and processes more easily. The service ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database has hit a record high of reported vulnerabilities in 2021. The new record, the fifth straight year the record has been broken, came to 18,378 vulnerabilities reported. The number of high-severity vulnerabilities reported fell, to 3,646 in 2021 from 4,381 the ...

Google LLC today revealed it has disrupted the operations of a large Russian botnet and filed a lawsuit against the operators of the network. The Glupteba botnet and related malware has been around since 2014 and has grown to a network of an estimated one million Windows devices. The botnet is notorious for stealing user credentials and ...

Cloud tax practice management platform startup Canopy Tax Inc. today announced it has raised $35 million in new funding to accelerate its mission to become the default operating system for accounting firms. Ten Coves Capital led the Series BB round. Also participating in the round were NewView Capital, Pelion Partners, Tenaya Capital and Ankona Capital. Including the new funding, ...

Google LLC today announced that its Cloud IDS for network-based threat detection is now generally available. Initially announced in July, the service, whose acronym refers to “intrusion detection system,” is designed as a cloud-native managed IDS offering Google’s vision of “Invisible Security.” Google Cloud IDS can be deployed by enterprises in just a few clicks in order ...

A newly found vulnerability in GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces has been found to expose a leading business-to-business financial technology company. While the exposed company was not named, the GraphQL vulnerability was uncovered and detailed today by researchers at the API security firm Salt Security Inc. The vulnerability was identified by researching the mobile ...

Industrial cybersecurity startup Claroty Ltd. today announced that it has raised $400 million in new funding, money that no doubt comes in handy for its acquisition of “internet of things” security company Medigate Tech Ltd. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the Series E round. Also participating in the round were ISTARI, Team8 and Standard Investments. Yossi ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. has launched the not subtly named AWS Top Secret West region, the company’s second cluster to cater for U.S. top-secret information. Following what is now called AWS Top Secret East launched in 2017, the new cluster is designed to cater for customers in the U.S. defense, intelligence and national security communities. ...

No-code automation platform startup Torq Ltd. today announced it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate its expansion in an effort to meet rapidly increasing demand from enterprise customers and managed security service providers. Insight Partners led the Series B round. Also participating in the round were SentinelOne, GGV Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. Including the ...