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Waltham, Mass-based Uptycs has emerged from stealth today with the announcement of $10 million Series A funding. The investment was led by ForgePoint Capital and Comcast Ventures.
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Legislation – especially complex legislation – often comes with unintended consequences. The EU’s General Data protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force May 25, 2018, is an example of complex legislation.
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On Wednesday June 13, in the run-up to Mexico’s July 1 presidential election, a website operated by the rightist National Action Party (PAN) was taken off-line for several hours by a DDoS attack. The outage occurred at the time of a televised president… Continue reading Cyber Attack Aims to Manipulate Mexican Election
London, UK-based start-up Tessian has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital. Existing investors Accel, Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane, LocalGlobe, Winton Ventures and Walking Ventures also participated. It brings Tess… Continue reading UK Email Threat Firm Tessian Secures $13 Million Series A Funding
Bengaluru, India-based security services and products firm Network Intelligence Inc (NII) has raised Rs 33-crore funding (approximately $4.8 million) from private equity firm Helix Investments. The money will be used for product development and to expa… Continue reading India-based Network Intelligence Raises for $4.8 Million for Expansion
Dixons Carphone, a household name in the UK, announced (PDF) today that it is investigating “unauthorised access to certain data held by the company.” It describes this access as “an attempt to compromise 5.9 million cards in one of the processing syst… Continue reading 5.9 Million Card Details Accessed in Dixons Carphone Hack
Okta Rex (Research and Exploitation) researcher Josh Pitts has discovered a method of exploiting the code signing mechanism in MacOS. If exploited, the flaw could allow malicious untrusted code to masquerade as legitimate trusted code and bypass checks… Continue reading Code Signing Flaw Affects all Mac OS Versions Since 2005
Machine data solutions firm Splunk announced Monday that it has agreed the acquisition of alert management start-up VictorOps for approximately $120 million. The acquisition is expected to close during Splunk’s FQ2, subject to customary closing conditi… Continue reading Splunk to Acquire DevOps Alert Firm VictorOps for $120 Million