Four serious security vulnerabilities have been found in International Business Machine Corp.’s Data Risk Manager that can allow hackers to execute unauthenticated remote code — and there’s no patch yet available. IBM Data Risk Manager, previously known as Agile 3 Solutions, is a software platform that aggregates data from different systems across an organization to ...

Digital identity management startup ForgeRock Inc. has $93.5 million in new funding to invest in research and development, cloud, global sales and market awareness. The Series E round announced today was led by Riverwood Capital and included Accel, Meritech Capital, Foundation Capital and KKR Growth. As part of the deal, Riverwood Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Jeff ...

Shares in Snap Inc. surged 20% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company beat analyst forecasts with strong revenue and user growth. For the quarter ending March 31, Snap reported revenue rose 44% from a year ago, to $462 million. That easily topped analysts’ predictions of $431 million. The revenue jump was reflected in an increase ...

Popular third-party Android app provider Aptoide S.A. has suffered major data breach with the details of 20 million users published on a hacking forum. The data breach was first discovered by security researchers at Under the Breach and is likely bigger yet, with those behind the hack claiming that they have in total 39 million ...

Financial technology startup Rapyd Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Korta ehf, an Iceland-based payment card service provider, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2002, Korta offers cross-border payments services in the European Union. The company offers services such as point-of-sale terminals, online payments and card storage services. Korta offers support for both Visa Inc. and ...

Information technology services company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. has been hit by a ransomware attack with part of its systems being taken offline over the weekend. In a statement April 18, Cognizant admitted to a security incident involving its internal systems and said its issues were related to a Maze ransomware attack. The company added that internal security ...

Instagram co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom have teamed up to launch a new COVID-19 website that tracks contagion levels across U.S. states. Called Rt.live, the tracking service uses a data analysis algorithm to track the “effective reproduction number” of the coronavirus to allow users to see how many secondary infections are likely to occur from ...

About $25 million in cryptocurrency was stolen from Uniswap and Lendf.Me over the weekend by hackers who exploited a technology underlying the Ethereum blockchain. Of the two, Lendf.Me, a decentralized lending platform with instant borrowing and withdrawal capabilities, was hit hardest, with 99.95% of funds or $24.5 million stolen. Lendf.Me itself is supported by the dForce Foundation, a provider of ...

Chinese auto manufacturer Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology Co. Ltd., better known as Xpeng, today announced its latest model, a competitor to Tesla Inc.’s Model 3 that’s powered by Nvidia Corp. technology, will roll out April 27. The Xpeng P7 uses the Nvidia DRIVE AGX Xavier platform with Nvidia’s most advanced graphics processing units and its Arm Hercules central processing units, ...

Business monitoring startup Anodot Ltd. said today it has raised $35 million in new funding to hire more people, expand into new industries and build personalized business packages. The Series C round was led by Intel Capital and included SoftBank Ventures Asia, Samsung NEXT, La Maison, Disruptive Technologies L.P., Aleph and Redline Capital Management. As part of the ...