French-owned international sports chain Decathlon SA is the latest company to suffer a data breach as 123 million records were found on an unsecured Elasticsearch database. The discovery was made by security researchers at vpnMentor and published Monday. The database is believed to belong to Decathlon Spain and possibly Decathlon U.K. as well. It included ...

Artificial intelligence hardware and software startup SambaNova Systems Inc. said today it has raised $250 million in new funding to allow it to further accelerate the software capabilities of its next-generation computing platform. The Series C round was led by BlackRock and included GV, Intel Capital, Walden International, WRVI Capital and Redline Capital. Founded in 2017, SambaNova ...

The National Transportation Safety Board today slammed both Tesla Inc. and Apple Inc. in relation to a fatal accident in 2018 involving a Tesla Model X operated by an Apple employee. The board made the comments while handing down its final report into the accident after two years of investigation. The report, while noting that ...

Electric scooter and moped hire startup Bird Rides Inc. today extended its services into mobile payments as the company seeks a path to profitability. Called Bird Pay, the service allows users to use the Bird app to pay for purchases at the point of sale, scanning a QR code to link to the merchant before the app ...

Security intelligence and management solutions startup Exabeam Inc. today unveiled its new Exabeam Cloud Platform designed to help security leaders improve their security posture. The new platform, introduced at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, has been designed to allow the easier expedition of provisioning and consumption of new applications, tools and content for security engineers and analysts. Cloud Platform ...

Cloud security startup Menlo Security Inc. today announced its new Data Loss Prevention solution powered by Isolation Core, a service that the company claims is a world’s first. The solution, introduced at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, is available as part of Menlo’s Global Cloud Proxy Platform. It’s built on the company’s patented Isolation Core, a ...

Uber Technologies Inc. likes to think of itself as more of a technology company than a glorified taxi firm, but with a new push into advertising, it’s going old school: ads on the top of vehicles. The ad push involves Uber signing a deal with ad-tech company Adomni, which provides mobile billboards for “out-of-home advertising,” or put ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has suffered a data breach, but though the extent of the breach and exactly what was involved is open to speculation, it may be the least of the company’s problems given that the Wuhan coronavirus  is out of control in South Korea. Initial reports suggested that the data breach may have ...

German cybersecurity firm Utimaco GmbH today announced it has acquired cryptographic key management firm Geobridge Corporation for an undisclosed price. Founded in 1997, Geobridge sells and supports encryption, cryptography and payment applications for payment processors, issuers, terminal manufacturers and merchants. In particular, the company’s services include key management program development, payments industry consulting, cryptographic software development warehouse ...

The Perth Mint Gold Token, a cryptocurrency token secured by gold and guaranteed by the government of Western Australia, begins public trading today, debuting on the KuCoin exchange. The token was launched in October by precious-metals digitization company InfiniGold Pty. Ltd. and is backed one-to-one by GoldPass certificates issued by the Perth Mint. GoldPass certificates are ...