Supply chain automation startup Apkudo Inc. said today it has raised $14 million in new funding to accelerate the global expansion of its Hive Device Platform across emerging channels and industries The Series B round was led by Harbert Growth Partners and MissionOG and included Grotech Ventures and Lavrock Ventures. Nine-year-old Apkudo’s Hive platform is designed to ...

Apple Inc. today announced an event for Nov. 10 at which it’s expected to debut new Mac computers run by Apple processors. The event, dubbed “one more thing,” a shoutout to the late Steve Jobs, will be virtual only as per previous events this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. What Apple may debut is ...

The Home Depot Inc. in Canada has suffered a data leak after sending customer information to other Home Depot customers. The first reports of the data breach appeared on Twitter on Oct. 28 as customers said they received reminder emails by mistake for hundreds of orders that were ready to pick up. The emails included customer names, email ...

Researchers at Google LLC’s Project Zero have disclosed a new Windows vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass security to install malicious software. Detailed late last month by researchers Mateusz Jurczyk and Sergei Glazunov, the zero-day or heretofore undiscovered vulnerability relates to an integer overflow flaw in input/output control in the Kernel Cryptographer Driver in Windows. Combined with a previously ...

Hackers have stolen $2.3 million form the Republican Party of Wisconsin following a phishing attack. The phishing attack was detected Oct. 22 and involved those behind the hack obtaining the funds through doctored invoices under the name of Wisconsin GOP vendors. The hackers altered invoices so that when they were paid, the money did not go ...

A joint advisory from various U.S. government agencies is warning that hospitals and healthcare providers are actively being targeted by ransomware attacks and that there’s an imminent threat of further attacks. The advisory, issued Wednesday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity ...

Shares in Twitter Inc. plunged in after-hours trading after the microblogging service delivered mixed third-quarter earnings results today. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Twitter reported a profit of 19 cents per share on revenue of $936 million. Analysts had been predicting a six-cent-per-share profit on $777 million in revenue. Ad revenue came in at $808 ...

Shares in Fortinet Inc. rose slightly in after-hours trading after the cybersecurity company beat analysts’ predictions for its third-quarter earnings. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Fortinet reported revenue rose 19% from a year ago, to $651.1 million. Profit before costs such as stock compensation rose 31%, to 88 cents per share. Analysts had been predicting a ...

Cybersecurity firm McAfee LLC today announced new products and features at its MPOWER Digital virtual conference that are designed to provide enhanced security services. Leading the two main announcements is the new MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform. It’s designed to deliver comprehensive data protection, threat protection, governance and compliance for cloud-native application lifecycles. Described as ...

Microsoft Corp. has warned that an Iranian-linked advanced protection threat group is targeting attendees of the forthcoming 2021 Munich Security Conference. The annual event, run since 1963, is an international security conference that attracts senior decision-makers and thought leaders, including heads of state, ministers and leading personalities from international and nongovernmental organizations. In a blog ...