U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is warning that the next big cybersecurity threat is killware, and it could indeed end up killing people. Mayorkas (pictured) identified killware as a serious risk in an interview with USA Today Tuesday, citing the case of an attack on a water treatment facility in Florida in February. ...

Engineer interviewing startup Interviewing.io Inc. announced today it has raised $10 million in new funding in a Series A round led by M13. Founded in 2015, interviewing.io pitches itself as reinventing the way tech companies hire engineering talent. The company’s platform gives engineers tools to level the playing field while providing employers access to a pipeline of ...

The Linux Foundation today announced it had raised $10 million in new investments to expand and support its Open Source Security Foundation project. The funding came from members of the foundation. The long lineup: Dell Technologies Inc., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Facebook Inc., Fidelity Investments Inc., GitHub Inc., Google LLC, International Business Machines Corp., Intel Inc., ...

Okta Inc. today announced continued growth and advancements in both Okta’s and Auth0’s Customer Identity and Access Management offerings at the company’s annual Showcase event. The event, the first joint event since Okta acquired Auth0 earlier this year, showcased a shared vision to grow the CIAM market and launch of a number of new capabilities. The ...

Datto Holding Corp., which supples cloud-based software and security solutions for managed service providers, today announced a new security offering at its first virtual DattoCON NOW event. The new service, Datto SaaS Defense, offers advanced threat protection and spam-filtering for MSPs with technology that the company says proactively detects and prevents malicious malware, phishing and ...

Microsoft Corp. today revealed that it mitigated a 2.4-terabytes-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack that targeted an Azure customer, the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. The attack originated from about 70,000 sources from countries in the Asia-Pacific region such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan and China (including Taiwan), as well as from the U.S. The attack vector was ...

Cloud-native data protection firm Trilio Data Inc. is highlighting its latest ransomware protection for Kubernetes as well as announcing new customers and support at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in Los Angeles and virtually this week. Trilio for Kubernetes v2.5, announced in September, offers a comprehensive approach to ransomware protection and recoverability. It does so in alignment with the ...

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password today announced a new feature that enables users to share items and passwords, including to non-1Password users, securely. The new service is called Psst!, standing for Password Secure Sharing Tool. When sharing items, users will receive a unique link that they can provide to their desired recipients. Links can be made ...

AT&T Inc. today launched a new managed extended detection and response service that extends threat detection and response from the endpoint to the network to the cloud, providing broad visibility. The AT&T Managed XDR solution features a cloud-based security platform with security threat analytics, machine learning and third-party connectors. The service protects endpoint, network and cloud ...

Automated multicloud governance and management solution provider cloudtamer.io today announced that it has raised $9.5 million in new funding. It will be used to increase its headcount to fuel growth in the company, incorporated as Nor Labs Inc., and bring enhanced cloud governance and management capabilities to market. Blue Heron Capital and TDF Ventures led the Series A ...