Cloud identity authorization startup CloudKnox Security Inc. said today it has raised $12 million in new funding to accelerate its product and sales plans. The round was led by Sorenson Ventures and included ClearSky Security, Dell Technologies Capital and Foundation Capital. Joining the board will be Stephen Ward, chief information security officer at The Home Depot; Ken Elefant, managing ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert today relating to a range of vulnerabilities found in GE Healthcare patient monitoring devices. The vulnerabilities, discovered by researchers at CyberMDX Technologies Inc. and dubbed MDhex, affect a range of GE’s CARESCAPE Clinical Information Center Pro patient monitoring products. The CIC Pro workstations are ...

The founder and previous owner of a cybersecurity firm has confessed in court to hiring hackers to carry out a distributed denial-of-service attack. Tucker Preston, 22, from Macon, Georgia, the previous owner of BackConnect Inc., a company that claims to be “the new industry standard in DDoS mitigation,” pleaded guilty under the terms of a plea ...

Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a data breach that exposed 250 million customer records via a misconfigured Elasticsearch database. As is somewhat typical with these exposures, the database was exposed because the settings on the Elasticsearch database were set to “public.” The data was first exposed Dec. 5 and Microsoft secured the data Dec. 31. As is ...

Microsoft Corp. is making its search engine Bing the default search engine for Office 365 ProPlus customers who use Chrome, at least according to a Microsoft support document. “Starting with Version 2002 of Office 365 ProPlus, an extension for Microsoft Search in Bing will be installed that makes Bing the default search engine for the Google Chrome ...

“Internet of things” solutions firm Aeris Communications Inc. today teamed up with Volkswagen Group of America to form Ventic LLC, a new joint venture to develop connected vehicle platform technologies. The joint venture, 51% owned by VW and 49% owned by Aeris, will focus on developing technology for Volkswagen vehicles in North America starting with the launch ...

Bitcoin payment solutions startup BitPay Inc. said today it has added support for XRP, allowing merchants to accept Ripple Labs Inc.’s cryptocurrency as a form of online payment. The support for XRP comes via a partnership between BitPay and Xpring, Ripple’s investment subsidiary, and includes full support for the cryptocurrency in the BitPay wallet to ...

Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. said today it has acquired privately held cloud continual visibility firm Cloudvisory LLC for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013, Cloudvisory offers a platform that provides continuous visibility, compliance and security policy governance solutions for cloud, hybrid cloud and multicloud environments. The platform offers a centralized security management service with support for auditing, compliance ...

In response to California’s new gig-economy law, Uber Technologies Inc. is experimenting with a new feature that allows some drivers to set their fares in the state. The experiment allows drivers who pick up passengers from airports in Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and Sacramento to charge up to five times the fare set by Uber, according to ...

The hacking of Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018 is now being attributed to a Saudi prince, according to sources quoted by The Guardian. The report claims that Bezos’ phone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message sent from the personal account of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The message, sent in May ...