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An Elasticsearch database with more than 134 million records belonging to car maker Honda Motor Co. was discovered unsecured online by a security researcher earlier this month in yet another case of a company failing to secure its cloud-hosted data properly. Discovered …
Cloud call center software provider Five9’s earnings smash forecasts
Cloud-based call center software firm Five9 Inc. smashed analysts predictions with its second-quarter financial results today, delivering its 14th consecutive quarter of positive cash flow. For the quarter ending June 30, Five9 recorded revenue of $77.4 million, up 27% from a year …
Cloudflare reportedly files to go public in September
Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. is set to go public in September after filing a confidential S-1 application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report today from Business Insider. Cloudflare was first reported to be considering an initial …
Capital One data breach raises questions about privacy and cloud security
The day after multibillion-dollar financial services company Capital One Financial Corp. disclosed that more than 100 million customers records had been stolen via a poorly secured cloud instance, new ramifications keep on emerging. Now, concerns are being raised in regard to both …
Identity verification startup Truework raises $12M from Sequoia and others
Identity verification startup Truework today said it has raised $12 million in new funding to scale up its product and engineering teams and expand the scope of its identity platform for consumer and enterprise users. The Series A round was led by …
Despite declining iPhone sales, Apple earnings beat forecasts
Updated: Apple Inc.’s earnings beat market expectations today with its latest quarterly report, and the company Steve Jobs built managed to do so despite weak iPhone sales. For Apple’s fiscal third quarter, the company reported $53.8 billion in revenue, up 1% over …
Attack interception cybersecurity startup Confluera raises $9M
Attack interception Cybersecurity firm Confluera Inc. announced today that it has raised $9 million in new funding to accelerate its growth and to bring its main cybersecurity product to market. The Series A round was led by Lightspeed and included Microsoft Corp. Chairman John W. Thompson; …
Data privacy compliance startup DataGrail raises $5M
Data privacy compliance startup DataGrail Inc. today said it has raised $5 million in new funding to accelerate growth and meet increasing demands for a product it describes as privacy as a service. The round was led by existing investor Cloud Apps Capital …
Stealth intervention security startup Trinity Cyber raises $23M from Intel
Security startup Trinity Cyber Inc. said today it has raised $23 million in funding from Intel Capital to build out a service it claims is an entirely new approach to cybersecurity: stealth interception of external threats. Founded in 2016, Trinity Cyber offers technology-enabled operations …
In huge breach, 100M customer records stolen from Capital One
Data relating to more than 100 million Capital One Financial Corp. customers has been stolen after a misconfigured firewall enabled a hacker to access the data stored in the cloud. The data breach, one of the largest of a big bank, took …