A few years ago, Karine Mellata and Michael Lin met while working at Apple’s fraud engineering and algorithmic risk team. Both engineers, Mellata and Lin were involved with […]
Worldcoin is no longer offering Orb-verification in India, Brazil and France
Worldcoin is no longer offering its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil and France, just months after the crypto startup expanded the helmet-shaped eyeball-scanning device to those markets. Tools […]
Okta snatches up security firm Spera, reportedly for over $100M
Okta, the identity and access management company, is acquiring security firm Spera. Anticipated to close during the fiscal first quarter beginning in early February, the Spera acquisition will […]
Microsoft disrupts cybercrime operation selling fraudulent accounts to notorious hacking gang
Microsoft says it has successfully dismantled the infrastructure of a cybercrime operation that sold access to fraudulent Outlook accounts to other hackers, including the notorious Scattered Spider gang. […]
Worldcoin adds integrations with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Mercado Libre
Expands offer eye-scanning verification services to Mexico and Singapore Jacquelyn Melinek 9 hours Worldcoin, a crypto project co-founded by Sam Altman, said it now supports integrations for its […]
Verve Motion raises $20M to grow its exosuit business
Verve Motion, a startup building a robotic “exosuit” designed to help workers complete physically demanding tasks in factories and other like environments, today announced that it raised $20 […]
Opal Security, which helps companies manage access and identities, raises $22M
VC investment trends in the cybersecurity market suggest a sector in decline — at least within the context of recent months. According to Crunchbase, cybersecurity deal count fell […]
Good news, startups: Q3 software results are changing the tech narrative
Earlier this week, public cybersecurity companies’ quarterly results left us scratching our heads as to why there isn’t more venture capital investment piling into security startups. In an […]
Okta security breach much worse than originally disclosed – all customers’ data potentially affected
Okta suffered a breach last month. It now says the breach was much worse than it initially said.
Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach
U.S. access and identity management giant Okta says hackers stole data about all of its customers during a recent breach of its support systems, despite previously stating that […]