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. ...

Home management platform provider Thumbtack Inc. today revealed it has raised $275 million in a new late-stage round of funding. Qatar Investment Authority led the Series G round. Other investors included Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, G Squared, Baillie Gifford, CapitalG (Alphabet), Founders Circle Capital, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management. The round was raised at a ...

Social planning application startup IRL announced today it has raised $170 million in new funding to expand its user base internationally. The Series C round in IRL, which stands for “in real life,” was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Other investors included Dragonneer, Goodwater Capital, Founders Fund and Floodgate. The funding was raised on a ...

The United Kingdom’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Apple Inc.’s and Google Inc.’s dominance in mobile ecosystems and whether that market power harms users and other businesses. The Competition and Markets Authority will be digging into what it describes as the firms’ “effective duopoly” in operating systems, app stores and web browsers. In ...

Ahead of Microsoft Corp.’s launch event June 24 for the next generation of Windows, screenshots of a pre-release build of Windows 11 have found their way to the internet. The news today that there will be a new version of Windows, the first in a decade, has come quickly. Windows 10, released in 2015, was said ...

Enterprise edge security platform startup Elisity Inc. today announced that it has raised $26 million in new funding to meet the demand for its cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform. The Series A round was co-led by Two Bear Capital and AllegisCyber Capital, with previous investor Atlantic Bridge also participating. Founded in 2018, Elisity offers unified policy and identity-based access solutions powered by ...

Web application and application programming interface protection startup ThreatX Inc. revealed today that it has raised $10 million in new funding to accelerate business growth and expand U.S. operations. The venture firm .406 Ventures led the Series B round. Other investors included Access Venture Partners and Grotech Ventures. Founded in 2014, ThreatX’s web application and API ...

Microsoft Corp. recently patched a severe vulnerability in Microsoft Teams that could have allowed an attacker to gain access to a user’s account. Discovered and publicized today byz researcher Evan Grant at Tenable Inc., the vulnerability related to a feature in Microsoft Teams that allows users to launch applications as a tab within any team they ...