Google LLC today released a new version of its popular Chrome browser complete with a range of new security features designed to make the browsing experience safer. For one, Chrome 79 integrates Password Checkup, a feature previously available as a plugin as standard in the browser. The service checks login details and tells users if their ...

Ripple Labs Inc.’s investment subsidiary Xpring today launched a new developer platform that has been designed as a one-stop shop for developers to manage everything they need when it comes to integrating blockchain payments. Xpring.io for developers, an extension of their previously announced Xpring Platform, is an open developer platform designed to remove the pain of integrating money into ...

Digital adoption platform provider WalkMe Ltd. said today it has raised $90 million in new funding. The Series G round was led by Vitruvian Partners and included previous investor Insight Partners. The new funding took WalkMe’s total amount raised to $307.5 million. Founded in 2011, WalkMe offers a digital adoption program for enterprises, primarily targeting its ...

Some 750,000 birth certificates have been found expose online in a yet another story of a company that didn’t secure its cloud storage, but this story has a twist: The provider was a third-party supplier of data to the U.S. government. The unnamed company, detected by Fidus Information Security Ltd. and first reported today by TechCrunch, ...

A threat group believed to have ties to the government of Vietnam is likely be behind the hacking of networks belonging to two car manufacturers: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, better known as BMW, and Hyundai Motor Co. According to a report in German media Dec. 5, the attacks are believed to have taken place sometime in spring and allegedly involved ...

Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi has responded to the company’s safety report released Dec. 5 by saying in an interview that the sexual assaults were a “reflection on society.” The report found that 3,045 sexual assaults occurred in its vehicles in 2018, up slightly from 2,936 in 2017. Adjusted for increased ride growth, ...

A new study from Microsoft Security has found that 44 million Microsoft and Azure cloud account holders were using passwords that were stolen in data breaches. The study, published late last week, analyzed more than 3 billion credentials known to have been stolen by hackers using third-party sources, then compared that data to credentials used on ...

Behavioral security analytics startup Cyberhaven Inc. today launched its main product with the announcement of $13 million in funding to further boost product development. The Series A round was led by Vertex Ventures and Costanoa Ventures and included Crane Venture Partners along with a number of individual investors. The company was founded in 2015 by a team of five ...

Data center provider CyrusOne Inc. has suffered a ransomware attack knocking at least some of its customers offline. The attack, believed to involve a version of the REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware, according to a report today by ZDNet, took place Dec. 4. A ransom note sent to the CyrusOne included its name at the top, suggesting that the attack ...

Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in a bid to overturn a ban that prevents rural carriers from using a government fund to buy network equipment from the company. The ban, handed down Nov. 22, banned rural carriers from using funds for Huawei equipment, as well as ...