Cloud-native security startup Aqua Security Software Ltd. today published new research revealing that it can now take less than an hour for vulnerable software container infrastructure to be exploited. The report, coming amid a continued rise in cyberattacks targeting container infrastructure, details how bad actors are getting better at hiding their increasingly sophisticated attacks. These involve ...

A hacker allegedly tried to poison water being processed at a San Francisco Bay Area water treatment plant, according to an NBC News report late last week. The attack took place on Jan. 15 and involved the person gaining access to the water treatment plant network by using a former employee’s TeamViewer account credentials. Having gained ...

Shares in genetic testing company 23andMe Holding Co. surged on their first day of trading today following its merger with Richard Branson’s special-purpose acquisition company VG Acquisition Corp. The shares of the merged company closed regular trading at $13.32, up 21% on a day the Nasdaq itself rose less than a percentage point. Under the ...

The world’s largest cruise operator Carnival Corp. & plc today disclosed a new data breach involving the theft of personal data, its third data breach in just over two years. The latest data breach was detected on March 19. The breach involved the theft of “personal information relating to some guests, employees and crew for ...

Defense technology startup Anduril Industries Inc. said today that it has raised $450 million in new funding to “turn allied warfighters into invincible technomancers.” Serial entrepreneur and investor Elad Gil led the Series D round. Other investors included Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Valor Equity Partners and D1 Capital Partners. The round was raised ...

Fintech startup Wise today announced plans to go public via a direct listing, a first by a tech company on the London Stock Exchange. Founded in 2011 as Transferwise Ltd. by former Skype employees Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann (pictured), the company was “born of frustration” with the costs of transferring money from one person to ...

Ocean and airfreight benchmarking and market intelligence platform startup Xeneta AS today revealed it has raised $28.5 million in new funding to scale up operations, develop commercial and technical partner channels, expand into new regions and build out its in-house data analyst team. Lugard Road Capital led the Series C round. Other investors included Creandum and Investinor. The ...

More than 1 billion customer records belonging to CVS Health Corp. have been found exposed online in the latest tale of unsecured cloud data storage. Discovered and publicized today by security researcher Jeremiah Flower working for WebsitePlanet, the nonpassword-protected database had no form of authentication and was exposed to all and sundry. The database included visitor ...

Commercial Apache Kafka startup Confluent Inc. today set the terms of its initial public offering, seeking to raise up to $759 million on a potential $8.33 billion valuation. Confluent announced on April 23 that it had confidentially filed to go public. Under the terms of the offering, the company will offer 23 million shares at ...

Artificial intelligence-powered customer relationship management startup Introhive Services Inc. announced today it has raised $100 million in new funding to do strategic acquisitions and expand its global footprint. PSG led the Series C round. Other investors included Bank of America Securities, the Business Development Bank of Canada, Aegis Group Partners, Evergreen Coast Capital and Mavan Capital Partners. ...