Police in Spain arrested a British man today in relation to the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc. in 2020. Joseph James O’Connor, 22, was arrested in Estepona, Spain, by Spanish National Police pursuant to a U.S. request on multiple charges concerning the July 2020 hack that saw the compromise of 130 Twitter accounts. ...

Audio-based social startup Clubhouse is finally out of beta test mode and is open to the public after a year of operating on an invite-only basis. The opening up of the service comes amid increasing competition for a service that was once believed by some to be the next Twitter Inc. Now that it’s coming ...

Cybersecurity risk assessment startup Safe Securities Inc. revealed today that it has raised $33 million in new funding led by U.K. telecommunications firm BT Group plc to hike research and development. Founded in 2012 and previously known as Lucideus, SAFE Security, as it prefers to call itself, offers cybersecurity and digital business risk quantification through a ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today officially announced its next Galaxy Unpacked event for Aug. 11, providing a broad hint in the title: “experience what’s about to unfold.” Expected to be revealed during the event is the Galaxy Z Fold 3, the Galaxy Z Flip 3, Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Buds 2. Due to the ...

Cloud-native authorization startup Styra Inc., the founders of Open Policy Agent, today announced new cloud infrastructure support via Terraform. The Terraform support extends Styra Declarative Authorization Service guardrails to storage, network and compute resource configuration in public clouds, including Amazon Web Services Inc., the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure. Terraform is an infrastructure ...

Campbell Conroy & O’Neil P.C., a leading law firm that counts among its customers some of the world’s largest companies such as those in the Fortune 500, has been struck by a ransomware attack. The firm first detected the attack on Feb. 27 and an investigation determined that the attack involved ransomware preventing access to ...

Rapid7 Inc. announced today that it has acquired IntSights Cyber Intelligence Ltd., a threat intelligence and remediation startup, for $335 million in a cash and stock deal. Founded in 2015, IntSights offers an external threat intelligence and protection platform designed to neutralize threats. Able to be deployed in as little as 24 hours, IntSights is pitched ...

Software from Israeli spyware company NSO Group Technologies Ltd. has been found being used to target journalists and activists in the latest controversy involving the company. According to an investigation published today, led by The Washington Post and 16 media partners, the NSO software was used in attempted or successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging ...

Zoom Video Communications Inc. late today announced that it has entered a deal to acquire cloud contact center provider Five9 Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $14.7 billion. Founded in 2001, Five9 offers cloud software for the enterprise contact center market with a software-as-a-service platform that has seen rapid growth over the last year ...

Document, book and audiobook subscription firm Scribd Inc. is in discussions to go public later this year, according to a report today from Bloomberg. The report, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, said the company has held talks with potential advisers on an initial public offering or a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company. The ...