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Hacker breached Florida water treatment system, tried to poison drinking water
Hackers gained access to control systems of a water treatment system in Florida and attempted to poison the drinking water […]
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Cloudburst Technologies Raises $3 million in Seed Funding
Cloudburst Technologies, a monitoring and threat intelligence provider, announced that they raised $3 million in their seed investment round. Investments were led by Strategic Cyber Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Bloccelerate. Cloudburst Technologies specifically provides tools aimed at tracking and combating fraud in the cryptocurrency market. Investigators can do so without relying on […]
Cyber Deals: Cloudburst, HUB Security, and Soucepass
Cybersecurity venture funding activity and mergers and acquisitions: This week’s most sizable deals included AI powered security service providers and computing platforms. Funding Threat solutions provider for cryptocurrency Cloudburst Technologies raised $3 million in the seed funding round led by Strategic Cyber Ventures in order to help build on their current technology. HUB Security, a […]
Cyber Executive Moves: Vimeo, IntelePeer, National Cybersecurity Center, and More
Former Tesla CISO joins Vimeo, NCC welcomes new board members, and Greenway Health hires new CISO. Video sharing platform Vimeo welcomes Mark Carter as their first chief information security officer. Carter has a variety of experience in the industry including serving as chief information security officer at Tesla. Greenway Health, a health services software […]
NetBox Labs Raises $20 Million in Series A To Drive Open Source Transformation of Networking Industry
NetBox Labs, an open source network management and automation startup, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Flybridge Capital is leading the investment with participation from GGV Capital, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Mango Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, IBM, the Founder Collective, and Entrée Capital. As part of the round, […]
Fivecast Completes $20M Series A Raise With New US and Existing Australian Venture Investors
US-based cybersecurity venture capital firm Ten Eleven leads funding, joining existing backers in CSIRO’s Main Sequence and South Australian Venture Capital Fund Australian open-source intelligence software company, Fivecast, has closed its Series A funding round with almost $20 million (AU$30m) raised to fuel its expansion and service contracts in key markets, including Five Eyes nations, […]
Push Security Raises $15M and Launches New Visibility and Employee-Powered Tools to Help Enterprises Scale SaaS Security
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Push Security, a SaaS security company, has raised $15M in Series A funding. GV (Google Ventures) led the funding with participation from Decibel and notable angels, including Dug Song, co-founder and former CEO at Duo Security, and Tray.io co-founder and CEO Rich Waldron. GV General Partner Karim Faris and Jon Oberheide, co-founder and former […]