Business to business marketing company OneMoreLead has been found to have exposed the records of over 63 million U.S. citizens on the internet via a misconfigured database. The data was found on an unsecured database that the company had left completely open by Ran Locar and Noam Rotem, researchers at vpnMentor. The database had 126 ...

Venture capital firm Advanced Technology Ventures has been struck by a ransomware attack that has resulted in the theft of personal information relating to its investors. The firm disclosed the ransomware attack in a letter sent to the Maine Attorney General’s Office. The ransomware attack is said to have taken place on July 9 and ...

Shares in Uber Technologies Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after the ride-hailing giant reported impressive figures that were slanted by onetime profits in its second-quarter earnings. For the quarter ended June 30, Uber reported $3.93 billion in revenue, more than double of what it did in the same quarter of 2020. Gross bookings grew ...

A ransomware attack has taken government systems offline in the Lazio region of Italy, including the local COVID-19 vaccination registration site. Lazio is one of the most populous regions of Italy and includes the capital Rome. The attack was first detected on Sunday and was described by the regional government as a “powerful hacking attack” ...

A bipartisan report released by the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has found that federal agencies continue to suffer shortcomings in their cybersecurity posture. The report, a follow-up to an investigation and report from two years ago that delved into the cybersecurity posture of eight federal agencies, found that only the Department ...

Cerberus Cyber Sentinel Corporation today announced that it has acquired managed service provider VelocIT for an undisclosed sum. Based in New Jersey, VelocIT offers a suite of managed IT products that are pitched as providing enterprise solutions and experience to small and medium-sized business owners. The company provides a range of support modules that can ...

Shares in Lyft Inc. remained flat in after-hours trading today after the ride-hailing firm reported strong quarterly growth but lower than expected guidance. For the quarter ending June 30, Lyft reported revenue of $765 million, up from $339.3 million in the second quarter of 2020 and from $609 million in the previous quarter. The improved numbers ...

McAfee Corp. today announced MVISION Private Access, an integrated approach that enables granular zero-trust access to extend data and threat protection capabilities to private applications on hybrid information technology environments. MVISION Private Access is designed to disrupt the zero-trust network access market by making data centricity a core capability of granular zero trust access. This ...

Connected device security startup Finite State Inc. announced today it has raised $30 million in new funding to scale up its business. Energize Ventures led the Series B round. Other investors included Schneider Electric Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Founded in 2017 by a team with backgrounds in the U.S. intelligence community, the company aims to protect devices ...

The European Commission has launched an investigation into Facebook Inc.’s acquisition of customer service firm Kustomer Inc. on the grounds that the purchase may hurt competition. Facebook purchased Kustomer in December for a figure believed to be just over $1 billion. Kustomer, founded in 2015, offers a software-as-service customer relationship management platform that is pitched ...