Deloitte & Touche LLP, a division of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., announced today that it has acquired cybersecurity company Root9B LLC for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2011, Root9B offers a range of cybersecurity products, services and training with what it describes as a “revolutionary human-led, technology-accelerated approach.” The company’s main offering, called “Orkos,” provides ...

Chinese autonomous driving startup Uisee Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. said today it has raised RMB 1 billion ($154 million) to strengthen its research and development into key technologies to realize “full-stack, fully unmanned, all-weather” driving solutions. The round was led by the Chinese government-backed Guokai National Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrade Fund. Founded in 2016, Uisee ...

Smart lock startup Latch Inc. is set to be the latest company to go public via a special-purpose acquisition company in a deal that values the company at $1.56 billion. Under the deal, Latch will go public via TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp., a company backed by property developer Tishman Speyer. Latch will raise $510 million ...

Details of more the 2.28 million users of dating site MeetMindful have been released online for free in the latest in a series of stolen data dumps. The stolen data includes real names, email addresses, address information, body details, dating preferences, marital status, birth data, location data, IP addresses, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, Facebook user IDs and ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has laid off around 185 people, approximately 15% of staff at Postmates Inc. after having finalized its acquisition of the company in December. The New York Times reported that Uber announced the cuts to staff on Thursday, Jan. 21, as part of an effort to consolidate its food delivery operations to weather the pandemic. ...

Apple Inc. has issued a warning that its iPhone 12 range and its MagSafe accessories can interfere with implantable medical devices, potentially making them deadly to users. The problem is that the devices contain magnets and radios that emit electromagnetic fields, which could interfere with pacemakers, defibrillators and other implants. The warning from Apple specifically ...

Audio-based social app Clubhouse said today it has raised new funding from the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz to help the startup scale up by hiring more people and investing in creators. The amount of the Series B round for the company, formally named Alpha Exploration Co., was not disclosed, though a source told Axios it was ...

An advanced threat protection group from China is allegedly targeting Taiwanese companies according to cybersecurity company CyCraft. In a recent report into an APT they dub “Chimera,” researchers at CyCraft claim that the APT, under the name of “Operation Skeleton Key,” has a particular interest in hacking Taiwanese semiconductor companies. Taiwan is, depending on which way ...

Cybersecurity failure presents a major risk facing the world this year and well beyond, according to the Global Risks Landscape 2021 report published by the World Economic Forum. Although infectious diseases, in particular the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic topped the “clear and present dangers” short-term risk (up to two years) chart, cybersecurity failure ranked fourth in a ...

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has released 1.9 million stolen user records from free online photo editing service Pixlr as part of a release of hacked data from various sites. Links to the data stolen from Pixlr were published on a well-known internet hacking forum Jan. 17 and included user login names, email addresses, hashed passwords, ...