Information security startup Enso Security today launched out of stealth with a venture capital raise of $6 million in seed funding. The seed round was led by YL Ventures and included Jump Capital, toDay Ventures and a number of individual investors. Enso Security was founded by former Wix.com application security experts Roy Erlich, Chen Gour Arie and ...

Truck automation and logistics startup Outrider Inc. today announced it has raised $65 million in new funding to scale up and support its technology to automate distribution yards. The Series B round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies and included NEA, 8VC, Prologis Ventures, Evolv Ventures and Henry Crown and Co. Founded in 2017 and launched out of ...

Amazon.com Inc. has fired a number of employees alleged to have leaked customer information to unaffiliated third parties in violation of company policies. The incident first came to light after customers started reporting receiving messages from Amazon over the weekend. The messages noted that their email addresses were disclosed by an Amazon employee to a ...

Visa Inc.’s acquisition of Plaid Financial Inc., announced in January, could be in jeopardy as the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly is looking at blocking the deal on antitrust grounds. The Wall Street Journal, referencing people familiar with the matter, reported today that the Justice Department is concerned the acquisition could limit nascent competition in the payments market. ...

Apple Inc. acquired artificial intelligence and vision startup Vilynx Inc. earlier this year for $50 million, according to a report from Bloomberg. An exact date on the deal is unknown but the Vilynx website was last recorded by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on July 16. The company’s LinkedIn page has been removed, but key ...

Israeli business application configuration startup Salto today said it has raised $27 million in funding as it announced its formal launch to the public after a year in stealth development. The Series A round included Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The company was founded in 2019 by veteran Israeli entrepreneurs Rami Tamir, Benny Schnaider ...

Australian document productivity company Nitro Software Inc. has suffered a data breach with customer data being offered for sale on the dark web. The company, which provides services to much of the Fortune 500, was hacked sometime earlier this month. In a statement last week to the Australia Stock Exchange, Nitro advised that they had been impacted ...

Golf and ski resort operator Boyne Resorts has been hit by a ransomware attack that forced the company to shut down parts of its network. First reported Friday by Bleeping Computer, the attack was first detected in the company’s corporate office a week ago before spreading to computer systems at the various resorts Boyne operates. As ...

A database containing voter registration details of 186 million people in the U.S. is being distributed on hacking forums, putting voters at risk of scams and disinformation campaigns. The data was discovered by researchers at cybersecurity company Trustwave Holdings Inc., which publicized the situation Wednesday. Along with the voter registration data, the database was also ...

Kik Interactive Inc. has finally settled the lawsuit filed against it by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its 2017 Kin initial coin offering as a court signed off on a deal. Under the settlement announced Wednesday, approved by Judge Alvin Kellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Kik is “permanently restrained and enjoined” ...