Facebook Inc. today provided details of its global outage that saw its services offline on Monday, and the explanation is bizarrely simplistic: It was a routine maintenance error. In a blog post, Santosh Janardhan, vice president of engineering and infrastructure at Facebook, said the outage was triggered by a system that manages the social networking ...

Software-as-a-service embeddable integrations startup Integry Inc. launched out of stealth mode today with the announcement of $3 million in new funding to accelerate product development. Bonfire Ventures and Operative Collective led the seed round. Also participating in the round were Basecamp, Silicon Bandia, Pencil Ventures and a number of angel investors. Founded in 2017, Integry offers a cloud-based ...

Ahead of its annual BlackBerry Security Summit, the BlackBerry Ltd. Research & Intelligence team today unveiled new research into Advanced Persistent Threat group 41, finding that it was linked to far more hacking campaigns than previously known. APT 41, also known as Wicked Panda and Winti, is a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that has previously been linked ...

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. today announced the availability of a new ransomware assessment service. The new service is designed to provide companies with visibility into their ransomware exposure and automate the patching and configuration changes needed to reduce risk immediately. The Qualys Ransomware Risk Assessment Service leverages a single, dynamic dashboard to provide a clear, comprehensive view ...

Researchers at Sophos Group plc have released details of new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor. The ransomware attack was first discovered at 12:30 a.m. on Sunday when those behind the attack broke into a TeamViewer account running on a computer that belonged to a ...

Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Orca Security Ltd. announced today that it has raised $550 million in an extended Series C round that was originally $210 million in March. The new funding will be used to expand into key industries and further grow the company’s business in the Asia-Pacific region. Including the new funding, Orca Security has raised $632 ...

Data collaboration solutions startup Duality Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its go-to-market operations, advance partnerships and further develop its technology. LG Technology Ventures led the Series B round. Also participating in the round were Euclidean Capital, NAventures, Intel Capital, Hearst Ventures and Team8. Including the new funding, Duality ...

Security researchers at cybersecurity firm Intezer Labs Ltd. have uncovered misconfigurations in older versions of Apache Airflow that expose sensitive information across major companies. The researchers said today they found that the unsecured instances expose sensitive information of companies across the media, finance, manufacturing, information technology, biotech, e-commerce, health, energy, cybersecurity and transportation industries. Apache Airflow is ...

Police in Ukraine have arrested two members of a “prolific” ransomware gang as part of a joint operation among international law enforcement agencies. The arrested occurred on Sept. 28 following a joint investigation involving the French National Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian National Police, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the International Criminal Police Organization and the ...

Artificial intelligence-powered dental health startup Retrace Labs Inc., backed by Intel Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp., today launched out of stealth mode with a product claimed to be a first for the U.S. dental market. Founded in 2016, Retrace offers a network that allows real-time connectivity between payers, providers and patients to enable instant payments based on ...