Financial service company Fidelity Investments has suffered a data breach with the details of nearly 80,000 customers stolen. The data breach was disclosed in an Oct. 9 filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, which states that 77,099 persons were affected by the breach. It occurred on Aug. 17 but was only discovered two ...

A new report out today from Sonatype Inc. has revealed that open-source software adoption is at a multitrillion-request scale, with ecosystems such as JavaScript and Python leading the charge. The details come from Sonatype’s 10th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain report, based on data from more than 7 million open-source projects, which found ...

A new Microsoft Threat Intelligence report out today highlights the growing cybersecurity challenges facing educational institutions and the growing number of threat actors targeting them. The report, based on telemetry data from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and 78 trillion daily security signals processed by Microsoft across various platforms, found that educational institutions face an ...

Decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure startup OpenGradient announced today that it has raised $8.5 million in new funding to build out its decentralized platform for sovereign, secure and open-source AI. Founded in 2023 as Vanna Laboratories Inc., OpenGradient is developing a decentralized platform that aims to make AI more secure, transparent and accessible. With a focus on ...

Israeli enterprise security startup Prime Security today launched and announced that it has raised $6 million in funding to accelerate research and development and expand its sales and engineering teams across its Tel Aviv and New York offices. Founded in 2023 as Primesec Inc., Prime Security offers organizations tools to implement security at the design phase ...

Google LLC today announced the launch of the Global Signal Exchange, a new initiative in partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and the DNS Research Federation that creates a centralized platform to combat online scams and fraud. The new GSE has the ambition of being a global clearinghouse for online scams and fraudulent bad actor ...

Australian DevOps automation startup Buildkite Pty. Ltd. today announced the launch of its Scale-Out Delivery Platform, a solution that provides adaptability and scalability for demanding and complex computing environments. The new platform comes with a number of new products that combat bottlenecks in the software delivery process across a broad range of use cases, including ...

Cybersecurity company Human Security Inc. announced today that it has raised more than $50 million in additional growth funding capital to bolster its mission to protect the integrity of the digital world by ensuring every online interaction, transaction and connection is authentic, secure and human. Founded in 2012, the company specializes in safeguarding digital platforms ...

Marketing technology firm Zeta Global Holdings Corp. announced today that it plans to acquire email advertising and marketing platform company LiveIntent Inc. for $250 million in a mix of cash and common stock. Founded in 2009, LiveIntent offers a self-described “people-based marketing platform” designed to help brands and publishers reach audiences through email, mobile apps and ...

Artificial intelligence testing platform provider Distributional Inc. announced today that it has raised $19 million in new funding to support its mission of making AI reliable for enterprise use. Founded in 2023 by Scott Clark, the former general manager of AI software at Intel Corp., Distributional is building an enterprise platform for consistent, adaptive and ...