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Mandiant says China-backed hackers exploited Barracuda zero-day to spy on governments
Security researchers at Mandiant say China-backed hackers are likely behind the mass-exploitation of a recently discovered security flaw in Barracuda Networks’ email security gear, which prompted a warning to customers to remove and replace affected devices. Mandiant, which was called in to run Barracuda’s incident response, said the hackers exploited the flaw to compromise hundreds […]
Mandiant says China-backed hackers exploited Barracuda zero-day to spy on governments by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
Blackbird lands $20M investment to expand its risk management tools
Blackbird AI, a startup developing AI-powered software for risk intelligence, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. Bringing New York-based Blackbird’s total raised to $30 million, the tranche also had contributions from Dorilton Capital, Generation Ventures StartFast Ventures and Trousdale Ventures as well as […]
Blackbird lands $20M investment to expand its risk management tools by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon’s ‘Hey Disney!’ voice assistant is now available
Amazon and Disney announced Thursday that “Hey Disney!,” the new voice assistant built on Alexa technology, is officially available in the U.S. It’s available for most voice-activated Echo devices. Hey Disney! marks the first time that an Alexa Custom Assistant (ACA) has launched on Echo devices inside customers’ homes. ACA allows companies to customize Alexa’s […]
Amazon’s ‘Hey Disney!’ voice assistant is now available by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch