Israeli DevOps security startup Cycode Ltd. announced today it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand sales and marketing efforts and build out its enterprise DevOps tools. The Series A round was led by Insight Partners and included YL Ventures. Including the new funding, Cycode has raised $25 million to date. Founded in 2019 and launched ...

Electric scooter and moped hire startup Bird Rides Inc. is planning to go public via a special-purpose acquisition company, according to a report late Sunday from dot.LA. The deal, which has not been confirmed by the company, reportedly involves Bird merging with Switchback II Corp. That’s a Cayman Islands-registered SPAC that debuted on the New York Stock Exchange March ...

The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been struck by a ransomware attack that has forced it to shut down systems including online services. The ransomware attack was detected on Friday and the city said today in a statement on Facebook that it had shut down various servers, internal programs and the city’s email system out ...

As Colonial Pipeline Co. scrambles to restore services after a ransomware attack forced it to shut down its fuel pipeline system, the story has taken a strange twist: The ransomware gang behind the attack is promising to be more careful in whom it targets in future attacks. As reported yesterday, the attack on Colonial Pipeline, ...

It was a tale of two contrasting cybersecurity-related companies in earnings reports today, as cybersecurity software and services firm NortonLifeLock Inc. topped analysts’ forecasts while identity management company SailPoint Technologies Inc. missed predictions. Not surprisingly, the results sent share prices of each heading in opposite directions. For its fourth-quarter ended April 2, NortonLifeLock reported revenue ...

Audio-based social startup Clubhouse has finally released an Android app at a time when the much-hyped company has seen its popularity start to decline. The app, initially available only in beta in the U.S. ahead of a wider global launch and release, is, like the iOS version, still invite-only. That means that although Android users ...

A major U.S. fuel pipeline system has been shut down following a ransomware attack. The pipeline system, owned and operated by the Colonial Pipeline Co., carries more than 100 million gallons of gasoline, diesel, home heating fuel and jet fuel a day and links refineries in Texas to New York via the East Coast. In ...

Ryuk, one of the better-known and more insidious forms of ransomware, has been targeting hospital and healthcare providers over the last year, but exactly how it gets into networks to begin with has varied between attacks. The path of infection for most ransomware is using phishing, followed by targeting servers with vulnerabilities. But a new ...

A vulnerability found in chips manufactured by Qualcommm Inc. that are used in 40% of the world’s smartphones can allow an attacker to inject malicious code. Discovered and publicized today by security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the vulnerability is found in Qualcomm’s mobile station modem, the chip responsible for cellular communication. MSM is ...

Google LLC today announced that it will start automatically enrolling account users into two-factor authentication. Announced on World Password Day, the move is pitched by Google as increasing account security by removing “the single biggest threat to online security”: passwords. “They are easy to steal, they’re hard to remember and managing them is tedious,” Mark ...