China’s legislature passed a new law on Sunday that would force all tech companies to hand over their encryption keys to the government, irrespective of whether they were local or foreign players. The new law, said to be by government newsagency Xinhuanet as representing “a development in the right direction for a country that has ...

Cloud-based email management firm Mimecast, Inc. has issued a warning to organizations of an increased prevalence of targeted whaling attacks. Whaling attacks are a type of phishing attack that involves the use of email sent from spoofed or similar-sounding domain names and appears to be sent from someone senior in a given company, such as the ...

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. has raised a staggering $880 million on a $20 billion valuation in a round that included Morgan Stanley and San Francisco Sentry, according to a regulatory filing the company made Wednesday. The news comes following a report that the company was raising the round in June, followed by ...

Beatlemania. extreme enthusiasm for the Beatles, as manifested in the frenzied behavior of their fans in the 1960s. Get your fashionable miniskirts and knee high boots on while screaming loudly because after a near eternal absence legandary British band The Beatles has finally come to streaming music services. As of Christmas Eve, December 24 (in ...

Remembering passwords can be a complete pain, let alone a security risk, but what if there was a way to access a site without the need for one? That’s the question Google, Inc. would appear to be addressing with the tech giant now testing password free entry for sign in. The testing of the potentially ...

Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix, Inc. has filed in a S1 registration form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicating its intention to go public in 2016. The company did not indicate how many shares it was offering in the float but said it was initially looking to raise $200 million, although this ...

Google, Inc. is building a new messaging app to take on Facebook, Inc.’s Messenger and WhatsApp, according to a report Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal quotes “people familiar with the matter” as saying that the tech giant had been working on the new app for over one year and is aiming to offer a multi-faceted ...

Confirming that there’s a sucker born every minute, Bitcoin mining outfit BTCS, Inc. has raised $1.4 million in a post-IPO equity round led by Cavalry Fund LP. The funding comes after news via way of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing in November that detailed that the company was in serious financial strife and was ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) powered video search firm Valossa Labs Oy has raised a $650,000 seed round that included Butterfly Ventures and several Finnish angel investors. Founded in September this year by a development team of Ph.D.’s, graduate students and M.Sc.’s from the University of Oulu in Finland, Valossa is developing what it describes as groundbreaking ...

The database for the site sanriotown.com, the official online community for Hello Kitty and other characters from Japanese kawaii character maker Sanrio Co. Ltd. has been hacked with the account details of 3.3 million users making its way online. The database was discovered by Chris Vickery, the same researcher who exposed the MacKeeper and Hzone ...