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SailPoint acquires Intello to increase visibility into SaaS apps
Cloud enterprise identity security company SailPoint Technologies Inc. has acquired software-as-a-service operations startup Intello Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2017, Intello offers a SaaS operations platform designed to enable companies to discover and manage their SaaS spend, usage and compliance data. Intello’s platform monitors all internal software subscriptions to manage the lifecycle of ...
Kia Motors America allegedly struck by DoppelPaymer ransomware attack
Kia Motors America Inc. has been allegedly struck by a DoppelPaymer ransomware attack along with a demand for a 404 bitcoin ($20 million) ransom payment. As reported by Bleeping Computer, the attack appeared first with a nationwide information technology outage across Kai’s North American business earlier this week. The outage affected Kia’s mobile UVO Link app, ...
Autonomous vehicle sensor startup AEye to go public via a SPAC
Artificial intelligence-powered autonomous vehicle sensor startup AEye Inc. today announced that it plans to go public via a special-purpose acquisition company. The deal will see AEye merge with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III in a deal that values the company at $2 billion. As part of the deal, AEye will raise $225 million in private investment in ...
Waymo starts testing autonomous robotaxi service in San Francisco
Waymo LLC, the self-driving car division of Alphabet Inc., today announced that it has begun limited testing of an autonomous robotaxi service in San Francisco some two years after it launched a commercial service in Phoenix. The testing of the service in San Francisco involves Waymo employee volunteers who are tasked with gathering feedback on ...
North Koreans indicted for alleged role in hacking and ransomware attacks
The U.S. Justice Department today indicted three North Korean nationals for their alleged role in the hacking and ransomware attacks that targeted cryptocurrency exchanges, banks and the entertainment industry among others. Jon Chang Hyok, Kim Il and Park Jin Hyok are accused of being members of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, a military intelligence agency of North Korea ...
Cloudentity teams with Axway to deliver zero-trust authorization for open banking services
Identity-aware authorization and application security solutions provider Cloudentity Inc. has announced a new partnership with application programming interface integrations platform provider Axway Software SA to deliver zero-trust authorization for open banking services. Open banking services are the use of APIs to enable third-party developers to build applications and services around a financial institution. The gist ...
Popular SDK used by social media sites allows attackers to spy on audio and video calls
A newly disclosed vulnerability in a software development kit used by a variety of applications and sites allows an attacker to spy on ongoing audio and video calls. Detailed early Wednesday by security researchers at McAfee LLC’s Advanced Threat Research team, the vulnerability relates to the Agora Inc. Video SDK. The Agora SDK is designed to deliver ...
Bitcoin surpasses $50,000 thanks to support from – who else? – Elon Musk
The price of bitcoin hit yet-another new record high today, briefly surpassing $50,000 around 9:30 p.m. EST. As when it broke through $40,000 for the first time on Feb. 8, support from Elon Musk through a significant investment from Tesla Inc. is being attributed to the rise, though other major companies are also reported to ...
Files stolen as law firm Jones Day hit by Clop ransomware attack
International law firm Jones Day has been targeted in a ransomware attack and the stolen files were dumped on the internet. First reported Feb. 13 by DataBreaches.net, the attack is believed to have involved the Clop ransomware gang, the same group behind an attack on German tech giant Software AG in October. Officially Jones Day is ...
Report finds criminals move cryptocurrency through a small number of services
A new report has found that criminals who use cryptocurrency launder their funds through a small number of online services. Chainalysis Inc., which last month said only 0.34% of cryptocurrency is traded for illicit purposes, found last week that the actual number of those undertaking illicit transactions is also remarkably small. Describing money laundering as “highly concentrated,” Chainalysis ...









