As computing power continues to grow at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, it allows hackers and other bad actors to reach new records when it comes to cyberattacks. Last week, Amazon Web Services Inc. detailed how it mitigated the largest ever record distributed denial-of-service attack. Today, Akamai Technologies Inc. detailed how it ...

Business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan Inc. has suffered a data breach and data stolen from the firm appeared for sale on a hacker forum. The Mountain View, California-based company has a global presence with 40 offices across six continents. It offers services such as market research, analysis, growth strategy consulting and corporate training. The data ...

Amazon.com Inc. has established a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit to investigate sellers who sell fake products on its platform. The unit, which includes former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators and data analysts, has as its primary goal preventing counterfeit products from being listed on Amazon.com. The secondary goal of the unit is to file civil lawsuits and ...

Mobile enterprise collaboration startup Librestream Technologies Inc. announced today it has raised $24 million in new funding to accelerate customer acquisition, hire more people and expand its global reach. The Series D round was led by the Canadian Business Growth Fund and included Pender Fund, Emerald Technology Ventures, Volvo Group, Export Development Canada and a number of existing ...

Open-source conversational artificial intelligence startup Rasa Technologies Inc. has raised $26 million in new funding to invest in continuing growth, AI research and developer and community education. The Series B round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included the Cultural Leadership Fund, Accel, 468 Capital, Basis Set Ventures and Mango Capital. Founded in 2016, Rasa offers ...

Twitter Inc. apologized today after it discovered that billing information from business customers had been potentially exposed because of the way the site caches data. Described as a “data security incident” by Twitter, the exposure affects customers of Twitter Ads and Analytics Manager. Information inputted by those customers, including email addresses, phone numbers, billing addresses ...

Concern has been raised about the future of the Open Technology Fund, a U.S.-government funded nonprofit corporation that develops internet freedom tools after a possible shift in its focus driven by the Trump administration. Founded in 2012 and funded as an independent grantee corporation of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the OTF aims to ...

Robotic lawyer startup DoNotPay Ltd. announced today it has raised $12 million in new funding to expand its business in the U.K. The Series A round was led by Coatue and included Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund and Felicis Ventures, the latter having invested in the company through a seed round in July. Founded in 2016, DoNotPay offers ...

Facebook Inc. today announced it’s discontinuing the development and sale of its Oculus Go virtual reality headset just two years after it launched. Announced in October 2017, Oculus Go was Facebook’s first standalone VR headset — standalone in that it didn’t need to be tethered to a personal computer like the original Oculus headset did. ...

A new case study published today by Google Cloud shows how rapidly the tech giant’s cloud unit, in particular its Google Kubernetes Engine, can be rapidly scaled up to meet intense data processing needs. The case involves Bayer Crop Science data scientists requiring huge amounts of data processing power to process genotype data to decide ...