A ransomware attack has struck workflow management solutions provider Kronos Inc. and knocked services offline. UKG Inc., the parent company of Kronos, said today that the ransomware attack could result in its services being out for “several weeks.” The company even suggested that its customers should seek other ways to facilitate payroll payments and human ...

Cable television provider Cox Communications Inc. has been hit by a data breach after a hacker impersonated a support agent to gain access to customer information. After the breach, first reported today by Bleeping Computer, customers started receiving letters from the company this week that warned them of it. The letter stated that on Oct.11, “unknown person(s) ...

DevOps metrics startup Software.co Technologies Inc. announced today it has raised $15 million in new funding to grow its platform and provide essential insights to engineering teams to enable faster and more efficient software development. Next47 and 8VC led the Series A round. Including the funding, Software has raised $22 million to date, according to Crunchbase. Founded in ...

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 ...