Google Inc. has unveiled a new commercial support product for companies using its cloud services. Called simply “Engineering Support,” the new product, as the name quite clearly suggests, provides Google engineer support to Google Cloud Platform clients on a role-based subscription model. Google is pitching the new service as providing a number of advantages over its ...

More than 1 million usernames, emails and decrypted passwords of Gmail and Yahoo accounts have been found on sale in a dark web marketplace. According to reports, a dark web seller who goes by the name of SunTzu583 is offering to sell 100,000 Yahoo accounts from the 2012 Last.fm data breach, 145,000 Yahoo accounts from the ...

Google Inc. has announced that it is enhancing its cloud partner program to make it easier for partners to build products seamlessly across its range of offerings. At the top of the list is the introduction of Google Cloud Partner Specializations, a new program that identifies partners via their specialties to make it easier for customers to recognize ...

Troubled business communications company Avaya Inc. has agreed to sell its networking business to Extreme Networks Inc. for $100 million as part of its efforts to battle its way out of bankruptcy. Avaya, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January in an effort to reduce its debt load of about $6.3 billion, entered the networking business when it ...

A new release by Wikileaks of thousands of top-secret documents from the Central Intelligence Agency has revealed for the first time that the agency is actively hacking a wide variety of smart devices, even smart televisions. The “Year Zero” release, the first part of what Wikileaks dubs “Vault 7,” includes 8,761 documents and files said ...

Israeli security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has extended support in its vSEC security platform to provide coverage for Google Cloud for the first time. VSEC for Google Cloud Platform delivers advanced security built for agile and scalable cloud environments that includes: Advanced Threat Prevent that complements Google Cloud Platform’s native controls by securing traffic ...

Finance application startup Qapital Inc. has raised $12 million in a new early-stage round of funding for its goal of reinventing financial services. Founded in 2012, Qapital offers a money management application that allows users to organize their finances in a single place by connecting their online accounts. It claims to offer an instant overview of ...

CA Technologies Inc. has acquired application security firm Veracode Inc. for $614 million in cash. Founded in 2006, Veracode offers cloud-based application intelligence and security verification services that it claims improve the security of internally developed, purchased or outsourced software applications and third-party components. The company’s platform uses static, dynamic and manual testing, eLearning capabilities and ...

Application network platform provider MuleSoft Inc. is set to go public soon at a nearly $2 billion valuation in the latest test of investors’ appetite for big tech company initial public offerings. Founded in 2006, MuleSoft offers a software-as-a-service platform that provides a way to connect applications and data in traditional on-premises data centers with the new ...

Amazon.com Inc. has acquired Thinkbox Software Inc., a firm that produces software for managing media rendering workloads, for an undisclosed sum. The news was revealed today in a terse post on Thinkbox’s website. Founded in 2012, Thinkbox makes software that is used by media and entertainment architects and engineers to manage render farms. Those are high-performance computer systems ...