The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency today issued an alert about threats against critical infrastructure during holidays and weekends. The alert is to remind critical infrastructure partners that malicious actors “aren’t making the same holiday plans as you.” The FBI and CISA note that recent history ...

The data of up to 1.2 million GoDaddy Inc. customers who use the company’s managed WordPress hosting have been stolen in the latest data breach to involve the web hosting and domain registration provider. The latest security incident involving the high-profile company was only disclosed via a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that was ...

Insurance companies are cutting the amount they coverage in cybersecurity policies amid a surge in ransomware attacks over the last year. That attacks are increasing is well-known: A report in October found that ransomware attacks had targeted 64% of companies. Cybersecurity insurance was also part of the agenda at a summit at The White House in August. ...

A data breach has hit a Utah medical services provider, exposing the records of nearly 600,000 patients. The incident involved Utah Imaging Associates Inc., a radiology medical practice based in Farmington, Utah. In a notice published Nov. 18, the company said it had detected what they describe as a “network security incident” on Sept. 4. ...

El Salvador’s president has announced an ambitious plan to build a so-called “Bitcoin City” in which the cryptocurrency will be the only legal tender. President Nayib Bukele made the announcement on Saturday night, claiming that the new city would be fully fledged. The city will include residential and commercial areas, restaurants, an airport, port and ...

The Social Security numbers of more than 100,000 California Pizza Kitchen Inc. employees have been stolen in a data breach. According to a Nov. 15 regulatory filing the company lodged with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, the data breach was detected in September. How the data was stolen was not specified and described only ...

Enterprise machine learning development platform startup Comet ML Inc. has raised $50 million in new funding to continue to evolve how it provides data science and machine learning teams a single platform to manage and optimize their work. The Series B round was led by OpenView. Also participating in the round were Scale Venture Partners, Trilogy Equity ...

Event management and payment processing on Salesforce Inc. company Blackthorn.io Inc. today revealed that it has acquired Textey LLC,  a Salesforce-focused short message service provider, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2105, Textey offers a comprehensive and affordable text messaging solution for financial services, real estate, higher education and Salesforce. A top-rated app on the Salesforce ...

Managed detection and response provider Expel Inc. announced today that it has raised $140.3 million in new funding to invest in product research and development, introduce new capabilities and accelerate growth. Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG and Paladin Capital led the Series E round. Also participating in the round were Cisco Investments, March Capital, Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners ...

Engineering software firm nTopology Inc. today announced that it has raised $65 million in new funding to expand the type of applications it serves in the product development process and strengthen its global footprint. Tiger Global led the Series D round. Also participating in the round were Oldslip Group, Root Ventures, Canaan Partners, Haystack and Insight ...