Data stolen from hundreds of police departments across the U.S. have been published online in a hack dubbed “BlueLeaks.” The 269 gigabytes of data was published online by a group calling itself Distributed Denial of Secrets and includes hundreds of thousands of police and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation reports, bulletins, guides and more. The ...

Microsoft Corp. has acquired industrial cybersecurity startup CyberX Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Various reports today suggest that the acquisition price was $165 million, following initial reports of the deal in May. Founded in 2013, CyberX offers an industrial cybersecurity platform built by former military cybersecurity experts with nation-state expertise defending critical infrastructure. The company’s platform focuses on continuously reducing ...

Facebook Inc. today said it has acquired virtual reality games developer Ready At Dawn Studios LLC for an undisclosed price to enhance its Oculus VR gaming division. Founded in 2003, Ready at Dawn initially started as a regular games studio before moving into VR in the mid-2010s. In July 2017 the company released Lone Echo ...

ServiceNow Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire configuration data management startup Sweagle NV for an undisclosed price. Founded in Belgium in 2017 with offices in Brussels, Paris, London and New York City, Sweagle offers configuration data management on a software-as-a-service basis. The company’s platform allows users to manage their configuration data — settings, ...

Apple Inc. kicks off its first online-only Worldwide Developers Conference at 10 a.m. PDT Monday with announcements expected across a wide range of Apple products including hardware and software. The shift to being online-only comes amid the COVID-19 pandemic with many companies switching to presenting online this year, sometimes with mixed results. Here’s what to expect ...

Backup solutions and cloud data management firm Veeam Software Corp. today announced a number of new products designed to deliver cost savings to enterprise users. Launched today during VeeamON 2020, this year exclusively online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced Veeam Availability Orchestrator version three and a new disaster recovery pack. It’s all ...

Facebook Inc. has acquired Mapillary AB, a Swedish startup that takes street-level imagery for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2013, Mapillary pitches itself as a sort of Google Maps competitor in that it offers street-level imagery such as Google Maps does but with a twist in that its imagery comes from “any camera, anywhere.” The ...

Blockchain developer Telos today announced the launch of the Telos EVM, the first deployment of an Ethereum Virtual Machine on the EOS.IO blockchain. The service is designed to deliver smart contracts on a platform that is said to be more than 700 times faster than Ethereum itself with no network fees or gas. Telos’ network currently ...

The infamous “Vault 7” theft of secret hacking tools and documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 2016 resulted from lax cybersecurity practices at the agency, according to an inquiry in 2017 that has only now been partially published. Information and tools stolen in the hack were published through 2017 by Wikileaks and included ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today revealed that it managed to mitigate a 2.3 terabytes-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack in February, the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. Detailed in the AWS Shield Threat Landscape Report- Q1 2020, the attack lasted three days, with those behind it unsuccessful in knocking Amazon cloud services offline. The attack was a so-called ...