Socure Inc. today announced the acquisition of Berbix, an artificial intelligence-powered document verification startup, for $70 million in cash and stock. Socure has raised copious funds, with 14 different rounds, including one $450 million round in 2021, for a total of $742 million. The companies are in the middle of a trend in this market, as ...

Two recent events are once again bringing the internet’s foundational Domain Name System into the news, and not in a good way. The first event involving the DNS last week was a warning from the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency issued on Friday for version 9 of the Berkeley Internet Name Domain, or BIND. It calls ...

Thousands of open-source code repositories on GitHub could be vulnerable to an old exploit, according to a report from Aqua Security Software Ltd.’s Nautilus research team published this week. Aqua analyzed a sample of more than a million GitHub code repositories and found almost 3% were vulnerable to an attack called repojacking. The bad actors ...

A small Minneapolis mainframe computer software startup is poised to change the way enterprises use and share data across the cloud. VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only woman-founded and women-led mainframe systems integrator in history. That is a bold position, but perhaps more important is its pair of revolutionary software applications ...

The protracted war on Ukraine has been fought on both physical and digital worlds, but after the initial forays last spring, Russian attacks on Ukrainian digital infrastructure have increased lately, according to new reports by three security analyst groups. Since the Russian invasion last spring, there have been a number of cyberattacks. Google LLC said ...

Cybersecurity threats continue to plague cloud infrastructures, and sadly these threats are still mostly the same from years’ past. But just because these threats continue doesn’t mean that cloud security, taken as a whole tapestry, isn’t as secure as on-premises equipment. That debate — which seems to have spanned a decade or more — should ...

When I first started in information technology, back in the Mainframe Dark Ages, we had hulking big databases that ran on IBM Corp.’s Customer Information Control System, written in COBOL. These mainframes ran on a complex collection of hardware and operating systems that was owned lock, stock, and bus and tag barrel by IBM. The ...

If you come across a security researcher from a company called High Sierra Cyber Security, beware — you may get tricked into downloading malware on your computer. High Sierra is a cover for a group of hackers who have weaponized social media and the open-source GitHub code repositories. It isn’t the first time this has ...

One of the biggest threats to enterprise networks is the ability of hackers to manipulate management consoles, the web applications for managing a variety of networked-based systems, such as virtual private networks, routers, firewalls, switches and other devices. For many years, bad actors have targeted consoles that are accessible via a public internet connection. They ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a variety of new security tools as well as expansions to existing services for its cloud computing customers. The goals, as described by Becky Weiss (pictured), an AWS cloud engineer presenting at AWS’ annual re:Inforce conference in Anaheim, California, are to bring more zero-trust features further across its cloud ...