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(ISC)2 – the world’s largest nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals – announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (NTT-AT), which will bring more local-language cybersecurity trai… Continue reading (ISC)2 and NTT-AT partner to bring cybersecurity training to Japan
Laiye, a Chinese startup that offers robotic process automation services to several major tech firms in the nation and government agencies, has raised $42 million in a new funding round as it looks to scale its business. The new financing round, Series C, was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lightspeed China Partners. Cathay Innovation, […] Continue reading Lightspeed leads Laiye’s $42M round to bet on Chinese enterprise IT
Google Cloud today announced that its new Seoul region, its first in Korea, is now open for business. The region, which it first talked about last April, will feature three availability zones and support for virtually all of Google Cloud’s standard service, ranging from Compute Engine to BigQuery, Bigtable and Cloud Spanner. With this, Google […] Continue reading Google Cloud opens its Seoul region
Japanese multinational Mitsubishi Electric has admitted that it had suffered a data breach some six months ago, and that “personal information and corporate confidential information may have been leaked.” The company, though, claims that &#… Continue reading Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, possible data leak
The trojan was observed as the final payload in a sophisticated and complex malware installation code set. Continue reading Platinum APT Shines Up New Titanium Backdoor
A database containing roughly 1.3 million credit and debit card numbers belonging primarily to Indian bank customers was uploaded this week to Joker’s Stash, an online market specializing in stolen personal data, according to new findings by security researchers. Group-IB, in a statement e-mailed Tuesday to CyberScoop, said the database was uploaded Oct. 28, and is worth more than $130 million, the equivalent value of roughly one dollar per record. Ninety-eight percent of the files belong to Indian banks, while 1% originate with a Colombian entity. Group-IB did not name any of the banks affected, victims included in the database or speculate on who may have uploaded the information. This addition of credit card information came just days after researchers determined that Joker’s Stash is growing. Over its four-year lifespan, the illicit card shop has become a dumping ground for financial information stolen from organizations like Hy-Vee, Sonic Drive-In and others. Now, […]
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Fyle, a Bangalore-headquartered startup that operates an expense management platform, has extended its previous financing round to add $4.5 million of new investment as it looks to court more clients in overseas markets. The additional $4.5 million tranche of investment was led by U.S.-based hedge fund Steadview Capital, the startup said. Tiger Global, Freshworks, and […] Continue reading India’s Fyle bags $4.5M to expand its expense management platform in US, other international markets
Hardware is hard, manufacturing only happens in China, accurate pricing is a dark art. Facts which are Known To Be True. And all things which can be hard to conquer as an independent hardware company, especially if you want to subvert the tropes. You may have heard of [Spencer Wright] …read more
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An Indian SaaS startup, which is increasingly courting clients from outside of the country, just raised a significant amount of capital to expand its business. Hyderabad-based Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, said on Thursday it has raised $15 million in a new financing round. The Series B round — which moves […] Continue reading India’s Darwinbox raises $15M to bring its HR tech platform to more Asian markets
Alibaba Group introduced its first AI inference chip today, a neural processing unit called Hanguang 800 that it says makes performing machine learning tasks dramatically faster and more energy-efficient. The chip, announced today during Alibaba Cloud’s annual Apsara Computing Conference in Hangzhou, is already being used to power features on Alibaba’s e-commerce sites, including product […] Continue reading Alibaba unveils Hanguang 800, an AI inference chip it says significantly increases the speed of machine learning tasks