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Sources have told TechCrunch that Twilio intends to acquire customer data startup Segment for between $3 and $4 billion. Forbes broke the story on Friday night, reporting a price tag of $3.2 billion. We have heard from a couple of industry sources that the deal is in the works and could be announced as early […] Continue reading Twilio is buying customer data startup Segment for between $3B and $4B
Twilio announced a major expansion of the company’s IoT offerings with the launch of Microvisor, an IoT connectivity and device management platform that offers embedded developers a one stop shop for building connected devices, keeping them secure, and… Continue reading Twilio launches Microvisor, an IoT connectivity and device management platform
Twilio’s annual customer conference was supposed to happen in May, but like everyone else who had live events scheduled for this year, it ran smack-dab into COVID-19 and was forced to cancel. That left the company wondering how to reimagine the event online. It began an RFP process to find a vendor to help, but […] Continue reading How Twilio built its own conference platform
Twilio’s annual customer conference was supposed to happen in May, but like everyone else who had live events scheduled for this year, it ran smack-dab into COVID-19 and was forced to cancel. That left the company wondering how to reimagine the event online. It began an RFP process to find a vendor to help, but […] Continue reading How Twilio built its own conference platform
Microsoft today announced the launch of Azure Communication Services, a new set of features in its cloud that enable developers to add voice and video calling, chat and text messages to their apps, as well as old-school telephony. The company describes the new set of services as the “first fully managed communication platform offering from […] Continue reading Microsoft challenges Twilio with the launch of Azure Communication Services
Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. Continue reading Sendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts
The security team at Twilio, a cloud communications company that claimed over $1 billion in revenue last year, could breathe a sigh of relief on Sunday night. Earlier in the day, someone had manipulated the code in a software product that Twilio customers use to route calls and other communications. The breach resembled a Magecart-style attack that skims websites for users’ financial data. Twilio cleaned up the code hours later, and said there was no sign the attackers had accessed customer data. But the damage could have been worse if the attack had been targeted, multiple security experts told CyberScoop. With access to the code, which was sitting in an unsecured Amazon cloud storage service known as an S3 bucket, the attackers could have conducted phishing attacks or distributed malware through the platform, according to Yonathan Klijnsma, head of threat research at security company RiskIQ. Dave Kennedy, founder of cybersecurity […]
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Twilio has confirmed that, for 8 or so hours on July 19, a malicious version of their TaskRouter JS SDK was being served from their one of their AWS S3 buckets. “Due to a misconfiguration in the S3 bucket that was hosting the library, a bad actor… Continue reading Attackers exploit Twilio’s misconfigured cloud storage, inject malicious code into SDK
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC), is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. It builds on the SPF and DKIM protocols to improve and monitor protection of the domain from fraudulent email. To sel… Continue reading How do I select a DMARC solution for my business?
97% of enterprise decision makers believe COVID-19 accelerated their company’s digital transformation efforts, according to a Twilio survey of over 2,500 enterprise decision makers. “Over the last few months, we’ve seen years-long digital transformatio… Continue reading Digital transformation: Affected and accelerated by COVID-19