Missouri Governor Mike Parson is threatening to prosecute a journalist who exposed a serious flaw on a state website that exposed Social Security numbers of state employees. As exposed by Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Despatch, the data breach involves a website maintained by Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The exposed details are ...

Self-driving cars operated by Waymo LLC, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet Inc., have been flocking to a dead-end street in San Francisco and no one seemingly knows why. CBS 5 SF Bay Area was first with the news, noting that locals are complaining about the self-driving cars flocking to the end of 15th Avenue. ...

Venture capital in the U.S. has hit new high records of investment, according to the latest VC report from PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor released today. The jump was riven by an explosion of mega-deals and record nontraditional investor participation, as investment totals in the quarter broke all previous records. Venture capital deals in the quarter hit $82.8 billion across an ...

So-called “double-tap” ransomware groups, which both encrypt and steal data and then threaten to publish the data without payment, have been on the rise for year. The appeal of such an attack is that the victim has to deal with systems being crippled and the threat of company secrets being exposed to all and sundry. ...

Some customers of Visible, the discount pre-paid mobile arm of Verizon Communications Inc., have been hacked in a so-called credential-stuffing attack. The attack first came to light after customers took to social media to say that hackers had accessed their accounts, changed their information and even ordered phonies using their payment information. Others claimed that ...

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 ...