GoPro Inc. is hoping its luck has turned for the better. On Wednesday, the company best known for its outdoor action cameras re-released its Karma drone for sale. The drone was infamously recalled back in November after a “small number” of Karma units “lost power during operation,” which is a polite way of saying the drones ...

Uptake Technologies Inc., a predictive analytics startup established by Groupon Inc. founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, has raised $40 million late-stage funding round. The Series C round, raised from Revolution Growth, founded by AOL founder Steve Case, valued the company at $2 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2014, Uptake’s predictive analytics Software-as-a-Service ...

Google Inc.’s long-held ambition to deliver safe self-driving cars is slowly coming to fruition, as new stats show the technology required far less human intervention in 2016. The stats, reported by Waymo Inc. (the company formerly known as Google’s self-driving car project) to California Department of Transportation, show a big drop in the number of disengagements. ...

Last year is widely regarded as a milestone period for data breached, and not in a good way. Just how bad was it? Pretty bad. A new study finds the year suffered the highest number of data breaches on record, breaking the previous record set in 2013. The study from Risk Based Security Inc. found that in ...

Distributed denial of service protection firm Radware Ltd. has acquired cloud-based security firm Seculert for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012, Seculert offers a software-as-a-service security platform that aims to fill gaps left by legacy perimeter defense and breach detection systems. It claims to protect enterprises from advanced threats by focusing on malicious outbound network traffic. The company’s ...

Employee protection solutions and cyber intelligence startup InfoArmor Inc., has taken an undisclosed amount of new funding from Boston-based growth equity investment firm Summit Partners. Along with the new funding, InfoArmor announced changes to its executive team. Current President and Chief Financial Officer John Schreiber will become chief executive officer, taking over from founder Drew Smith, who ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has signed a deal with German automaker Daimler AG that will see Mercede-Benz vehicles joining Uber’s self-driving car fleet. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Nor was a timeline, only a commitment that the vehicle would be joining Uber “in the coming years.” According to The New York Times, the deal is ...

Security firm Exabeam Inc. has launched a new Security Intelligence Platform that is designed to lower the risk of cyberthreats in enterprise environments at a more affordable price than other solutions in the market. Exabeam’s new platform aims to enable the collection of more data than existing platforms by making better connections across data to ...

A former Federal Reserve employee has been fined $5,000 and placed on 12 months’ probation for mining bitcoin from a server at the central bank. Nicholas Berthaume, who previously worked as a communications analyst for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, was alleged to have “installed unauthorized software on a Board server to connect to ...

A new study has found that printers commonly used in enterprise environments are a security risk that can be exploited to leak information and execute code. The study, Exploiting Printer Security from Ruhr-Universität Bochum researcher Jens Müller, analyzed 20 printers and multi-function printers to find that every single printer tested had at least one exploitable security vulnerability. Testing of the ...