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OpenAI disrupts international influence operations using its AI tools

Duncan Riley — Fri, 31 May 2024 00:49:58 +0000

OpenAI revealed in a blog post today that it identified and disrupted five covert influence operations in the last three months that were attempting to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes. The influence campaigns disrupted by OpenAI are claimed to have come from Russia, China, Iran and, surprisingly, Israel, although the Israeli campaign was […]

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Asana impresses investors with better-than-expected results

Duncan Riley — Fri, 31 May 2024 00:14:53 +0000

Asana Inc. impressed investors with its earnings report today, beating expectations on revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2025 first quarter. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Asana reported an adjusted loss per share of six cents, up from a loss of nine cents per share in the same quarter of last year, […]

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Elastic shares climb 8% on strong earnings and revenue beats in fourth quarter

Duncan Riley — Thu, 30 May 2024 23:47:16 +0000

Shares in Elastic N.V. rose nearly 8% in late trading after the enterprise-grade search software company today reported better-than-expected results in its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Elastic reported adjusted earnings per share of 21 cents on revenue of $335 million, the latter up 20% year-over-year. Both were beats, […]

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Zscaler posts strong growth, but SentinelOne shares fall on missed outlook metric

Duncan Riley — Thu, 30 May 2024 23:17:15 +0000

It was a tale of different outcomes in security company quarterly earnings reports today, with Zscaler Inc. shares surging and SentinelOne Inc. falling, the latter on a missed metric on outlook. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Zscaler reported adjusted earnings per share of 88 cents, up from 48 cents in the same […]

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Department of Justice says it has taken down a large botnet with 19M unique IP address

Duncan Riley — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:25:27 +0000

The U.S. Department of Justice, in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies, says it has taken down a large botnet and arrested its administrator, YunHe Wang. The botnet, called 911 S5, was allegedly used to commit cyberattacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats and export violations. The Justice Department claims that Wang and others […]

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ShinyHunters lists 560M stolen Ticketmaster user records for sale following BreachForums resurgence

Duncan Riley — Thu, 30 May 2024 00:41:15 +0000

A day after it was reported that the infamous hacking site BreachForums had returned after yet another Federal Bureau of Investigation “takedown,” ShinyHunters, the hacking group that brought the site back, is now claiming to have stolen data related to 560 million Ticketmaster Entertainment LLC users. The post on BreachForums claims that the data includes […]

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Okta shares rise on strong earnings and upbeat outlook

Duncan Riley — Thu, 30 May 2024 00:10:52 +0000

Share in Okta Inc. rose nearly 3% in late trading today after the identity and access management company reported earnings and revenue beats in its first quarter and also forecast an outlook higher than analyst expectations. For the quarter ended April 30, Okta reported adjusted earnings per share of 65 cents, up from 22 cents […]

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Salesforce shares tumble after-hours on first earnings miss since 2006

Duncan Riley — Wed, 29 May 2024 23:39:46 +0000

Shares in Salesforce Inc. plunged over 15% in after-hours trading today after the cloud-based software company missed on revenue in its fiscal first quarter — the first time it has reported a revenue miss since 2006 — and also fell short on its outlook. For its first quarter ended April 30, Salesforce reported adjusted earnings […]

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Maven AGI unveils AI platform after securing $20M for global expansion

Duncan Riley — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:30:14 +0000

Artificial intelligence startup Maven AGI Inc. today launched with $20 million in funding to expand its engineering, marketing and partnership teams. Founded in 2023, Maven AGI debuts with a platform that is designed to transform enterprise customer support through generative AI. The company’s platform is said to reimagine customer service from the ground up by […]

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New JFrog-GitHub partnership aims to streamline ‘EveryOps’ for developers

Duncan Riley — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:15:44 +0000

Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today announced a new partnership with Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub to deliver an integrated platform that allows joint customers to manage “EveryOps” for developers, including DevOps, DevSecOps, MLOps and generative artificial intelligence-powered apps. The partnership seeks to assist development teams that manage both source code and binaries, with integration between JFrog and […]

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Aporia introduces real-time guardrails for multimodal AI applications

Duncan Riley — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:00:59 +0000

Machine learning observability startup Aporia Technologies Ltd. today launched Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications, a new service that extends its existing artificial intelligence guardrails solution to include guardrails for vision and audio. Claimed to be a first-of-its-kind solution, Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications is designed to mitigate issues in video and audio-based AI applications, such as hallucinations, […]

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Lacework extends platform capabilities with security service edge product for zero-trust connectivity

Duncan Riley — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:00:30 +0000

Cloud security company Lacework Inc. today announced the release of Lacework Edge, a new security service edge product that extends Lacework’s existing platform’s features to making users and networks more secure. Lacework Edge is a proxy-based, cloud-native product that offers zero-trust connectivity by leveraging contextual data to make continuous risk-based access decisions. The service secures access from […]

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FIDO Alliance introduces Face Verification Certification to enhance biometric security

Duncan Riley — Wed, 29 May 2024 09:00:35 +0000

FIDO Alliance, the open authentication standards industry association, today announced the launch of a certification platform to test and certify the performance of remote biometric identity verification technology. The new Face Verification Certification program does as the name suggests — it verifies faces — although simply looking at a face isn’t where the idea stops […]

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2.8M+ records exposed in data breach at prescription management company Sav-Rx

Duncan Riley — Tue, 28 May 2024 23:37:35 +0000

U.S. prescription management company Sav-Rx has disclosed that the records of more than 2.8 million customers have been exposed in a data breach that occurred in October last year. The first indication of the breach was made in a May 24 filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, with the company then following […]

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Check Point warns of increase in enterprise attacks targeting vulnerable VPNs

Duncan Riley — Tue, 28 May 2024 23:08:31 +0000

Cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is warning that it’s seeing a rise in threat actors exploiting remote-access virtual private network environments to gain authorized access to enterprises. Over the last few months, Check Point researchers have observed malicious groups leveraging VPNs as an entry point and attack vector into organizations. The groups aim to […]

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After FBI takedown, hacking site BreachForums returns using original domain

Duncan Riley — Tue, 28 May 2024 22:38:46 +0000

Infamous hacking site BreachForums is back online some two weeks after being taken down by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice — and to add insult to injury, it’s using the same domain name that was seized by the FBI. BreachForums was taken offline on May 15, with a message on […]

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Adaptive Shield expands SaaS security platform to enhance permissions and data management

Duncan Riley — Tue, 28 May 2024 12:00:37 +0000

Israeli security management platform startup A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. today said it’s expanding its security platform to manage permissions and shared data better in software-as-a-service applications, aiming to make it easer for companies to protect sensitive information. The new extensions to Adaptive Shield’s platform include extending SaaS coverage to entitlement management to drive SaaS security […]

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BlackRock, Fidelity and six other firms receive SEC approval for Ethereum ETFs

Duncan Riley — Thu, 23 May 2024 22:54:52 +0000

In a surprise decision, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has approved eight applications for spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds. The SEC approved 19b-4 forms — submissions made to the SEC seeking approval to list and trade a new ETF — that detailed the proposed rule changes and regulatory compliance. The eight […]

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Bugcrowd expands security services with acquisition of ASM provider Informer

Duncan Riley — Thu, 23 May 2024 22:17:24 +0000

Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform startup Bugcrowd Inc. today announced that it has acquired Informer, a U.K.-based provider of external attack surface management and penetration testing, for an undisclosed sum. Coming after Bugcrowd raised $102 million in new funding in February, Informer is Bugcrowd’s first-ever acquisition. Bugcrowd plans to integrate Informer’s technologies into its existing portfolio. Founded in 2014 […]

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SaaS authentication platform startup Userfront launches with $5.3M in seed funding

Duncan Riley — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:28 +0000

Authentication and identity platform startup Userfront Inc. today announced that it has raised $5.3 million in new funding and that its offering is now generally available for software-as-a-service providers. Founded in 2020, Userfront offers an auth and identity platform that is pitched as transforming digital businesses to serve free, freemium and enterprise customers in one […]

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Averlon launches advanced AI cybersecurity platform after securing $8M in funding

Duncan Riley — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:00:19 +0000

Cloud security startup Averlon Inc. launched today, saying it has raised $8 million in new funding to enhance its artificial intelligence-powered cloud security platform, improve threat prediction and neutralization, expand its capabilities. Founded in 2022, Averlon offers a cybersecurity platform designed to prevent malicious attacks. The company’s platform uses AI technology to counteract AI-driven attacks and provides […]

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Strong fiscal earnings performance drives Zuora stock up nearly 10% after-hours

Duncan Riley — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:27:59 +0000

Shares of cloud subscription services company Zuora Inc. rose nearly 10% in late trading today after the company surprised investors with revenue and earnings beats in its fiscal 2025 first quarter. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Zuora reported adjusted earnings per share of 11 cents, up from five cents per share in the same […]

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Mixed Q2 results for Synopsys: Revenue falls short, adjusted EPS surpasses estimates

Duncan Riley — Wed, 22 May 2024 22:55:09 +0000

Shares in Synopsys Inc. declined by over 1% in late trading today after the electronic design automation company reported mixed results in its fiscal second quarter, with revenue falling short but adjusted earnings per share beating expectations. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Synopsys reported adjusted earnings per share of $466.9 million or […]

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Hydrolix raises $35M to expand streaming data lake operations and partner network

Duncan Riley — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:00:21 +0000

Streaming data lake platform startup Hydrolix Inc. today announced that it has raised $35 million in new funding to fuel product development, expand sales operations and implement a partner program. Founded in 2018, Hydolix offers a streaming data lake platform designed to transform the economics of log data. A streaming data lake platform is a data […]

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New VerifyAI by Strike Graph enhances compliance with real-time feedback

Duncan Riley — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:00:56 +0000

Cybersecurity compliance startup Strike Graph Inc. today announced the launch of VerifyAI, a new artificial intelligence-powered service for security compliance that aims to give businesses flexibility and control for audits. Claimed to go beyond basic security control automation to understand the nuances of a business, VerifyAI delivers real-time feedback on continuous compliance, allowing customers peace of mind knowing […]

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Nightfall AI introduces ‘Firewall for AI’ to enhance security in generative AI applications

Duncan Riley — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:00:22 +0000

Cloud data protection startup Nightfall AI today announced the release of Firewall for AI, a new product designed to safeguard generative artificial intelligence-based applications and data pipelines. The service seeks to address the issues of sensitive data exposure and prompt injection. They’re two of the greatest risks facing companies that host public large language models or leverage […]

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Generative AI services have driven a huge surge in phishing attacks

Duncan Riley — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:00:09 +0000

A new report released today by phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. details a massive increase in malicious emails, much of it driven by artificial intelligence services such as ChatGPT. The SlashNext State of Phishing 2024 mid-year assessment covers some objectively massive increases in malicious emails and that’s saying something in an age where increases in cyberattacks and malicious […]

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PagerDuty Operations Cloud gets a boost with new AI and automation capabilities

Duncan Riley — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:00:02 +0000

Analytics and observability firm PagerDuty Inc. today launched new capabilities and upgrades to its PagerDuty Operations Cloud that are designed to assist in the resolution of operational issues and increase revenue. The new capabilities are pitched as helping enterprises modernize their operations centers by standardizing automation practices, transforming management and automating remote-location operations. With the […]

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Farcaster secures $150M to expand decentralized social networking features

Duncan Riley — Tue, 21 May 2024 23:36:37 +0000

Decentralized social network protocol startup Farcaster said today it has raised $150 million in new funding on a $1 billion valuation to further grow its user base and add new in-protocol features such as channels and direct messaging. Founded in 2021, Farcaster offers a decentralized social network protocol that allows developers to build interoperable applications where users […]

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WitnessAI unveils AI safety platform after securing $27.5M in venture capital

Duncan Riley — Tue, 21 May 2024 23:02:53 +0000

Artificial intelligence safety platform startup WitnessAI Inc. today launched as it announced it has raised $27.5 million in funding from GV Management Co. LLC and Ballistic Ventures LLC to accelerate the development of new AI safeguards. WitnessAI’s path to becoming a venture capital-backed startup isn’t typical as it was founded and incubated in 2023 by […]

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