Throughout the history of humanity, every new invention, despite the best intentions, often ends up being used for wrongdoing. And when new inventions are used that way, those inventions often hit an inflection point. 2025 started with a Tesla Inc. Cybertruck filled with fireworks, gas canisters and camping fuel exploding outside the Trump International Hotel in Las ...

Security intelligence and management solutions company Exabeam Inc. today announced updates to its New-Scale Security Operations Platform that expand its capabilities with Open-API compatibility along with several enhancements designed to streamline threat detection, investigation and response. Its first product launch of 2025 and only its second since merging with LogRhythm Inc. in July, Exabeam says the enhancements ...

Cybersecurity company Human Security Inc. today announced an extended partnership with artificial intelligence startup Tollbit to protect against unauthorized AI scraping bots, enforce robotx.txt directives and enable publishers to monetize their content. Tollbit is a venture capital-funded startup that offers a marketplace for published and AI companies to facilitate fair and seamless content monetization. The company’s platform ...

The venture capital market saw mixed results in the fourth quarter of 2024, with artificial intelligence dominating funding globally, while other sectors faced declining activity. That’s according to a first look at the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released early Tuesday. Starting with the U.S., dealmaking remained relatively robust through 2024 from a counting perspective and saw ...

A new report out today from cloud security startup Netskope Inc. has found that phishing clicks nearly tripled in 2024, underscoring the growing risks enterprises face from evolving cyberthreats. The finding came from Netskope’s annual Cloud & Threat Report, which highlights how attackers are exploiting platforms such as Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive to host malicious payloads ...

Application security company Veracode Inc. today announced that it had acquired certain assets from software supply chain security company Phylum Inc. for an undisclosed price. Under the deal, Veracode is acquiring Phylum’s malicious package analysis, detection and mitigation technology. The technology is planned to be used to enhance Veracode’s ability to identify and block malicious code in ...

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today announced the Snapdragon X Platform, the fourth platform to join the Snapdragon X Series compute portfolio, that has been designed to deliver performance, multiday battery life and Copilot+ PC experiences. The Snapdragon X Platform features an eight-core Qualcomm Oryon CPU and a 45 trillion-operations-per-second NPU that Qualcomm says delivers 163% faster ...

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today unveiled a number of advancements across artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and smart home ecosystems that enhance privacy, scalability and user experiences through a variety of means: edge processing, on-premises AI solutions and seamless device interoperability. Leading the list of announcements at the CES consumer electronics show is the launch ...

A report released today by phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. warns of a dangerous new WordPress plugin that is being used by cybercriminals to turn legitimate websites into phishing traps. Called PhishWP, the WordPress plugin is being distributed on a Russian cybercrime forum and allows attackers to create highly convincing fake payment pages, mimicking trusted services such as Stripe, ...

Multinational investment bank and financial services company Morgan Stanley is reportedly considering plans to launch cryptocurrency trading services through its E*TRADE arm amid an expected more favorable regulatory environment under the incoming second Trump administration. The news was first reported by The Information, which claims that the plans are still in the exploratory phase. Morgan ...