Amazon’s home security business, Ring, landed in more hot water Thursday when researchers discovered thousands of user passwords had been uploaded to sites on the dark web. Some 1,500 unique… Read More
Amazon is in the crosshairs of consumer groups — led by the digital rights organization Fight for the Future — this week following a series of hacks into Ring security… Read More
The hacking of multiple Ring cameras this week brought the sometimes abstract world of tech security and privacy into stark relief, as hackers watched and harassed families and children in their… Read More
After a series of high-profile hacks involving in-home Ring security cameras, some people are finding that devices they bought to increase their sense of security at home are doing just… Read More
When the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency tested an “Aerial Dragnet” system for tracking drones over urban terrain last month, Echodyne lent a helping hand. Echodyne — a Kirkland,… Read More
Amazon is attempting to set the record straight on Ring, the security camera company that the tech giant acquired in 2018. Ring has been making headlines over the past few… Read More
Microsoft’s decision to retain former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate how one of its partner companies uses facial recognition technology, announced late last week, highlights one of the… Read More
Marketing verification startup SheerID just raised $64 million of fresh funding in a round led by CVC Growth Partners with participation from existing investors Centana Growth Partners and Seattle firm… Read More
A hacking group tied to the Russian government has been targeting sporting organizations ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Microsoft said Monday. Microsoft security researchers discovered at least… Read More
The California Consumer Privacy Act is fast approaching. The landmark privacy law, known as CCPA, goes into effect Jan. 1 and changes the way businesses collect information about California residents,… Read More
Two Democrats in the Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s involvement in the Capital One data breach that affected more than 100 million people this past… Read More
As surveillance technology is rapidly advancing — including facial recognition and devices such as Amazon’s Ring doorbell cameras — the ability to regulate these tools is not keeping pace, agreed… Read More
Brad Smith makes one hell of a convincing argument. How else can you explain the following from Bill Gates’ foreword to his book, “Tools & Weapons: The Promise and the… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and other investors have contributed to a fresh $20 million funding round for Kirkland, Wash.-based Echodyne, a company that makes use of exotic metamaterials to build… Read More
Is Ring’s collaboration with police departments a public benefit or a privacy concern? That’s the issue raised by an announcement from the Amazon-owned smart doorbell maker, in which it touts… Read More
A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces in a new effort to boost cloud security by protecting… Read More
Edge Delta, a Seattle-based startup that’s building a distributed analytics platform, raised $3 million in seed funding from lead investors MaC Venture Capital and Amity Ventures. The freshly-launched company was… Read More
Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, a Redwood City, Calif.-based startup that builds data governance and compliance software for Fortune 100 companies. The BlueTalon team will join Microsoft as part of its… Read More
Microsoft today rolled out a new feature for OneDrive users called “Personal Vault” for sensitive files on its cloud storage service that need an extra layer of security. Files in… Read More
After seven months in preview, Amazon Web Services on Monday night announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub, aiming to make it easier for corporate… Read More
With hundreds of federal agencies eager to modernize their processes, competition in government tech is hot. Take the Department of Defense’s JEDI contract, a $10 billion cloud migration project that… Read More
Polyverse has secured an additional $1 million in funding months after its last round, bringing the total amount of money raised by the Bellevue security startup to $10 million. The… Read More
Amazon is ending its contract with embattled security contractor Security Industry Specialists (SIS) in favor of two union-backed firms. SIS announced that it would shed more than 1,000 employees in… Read More
Eugenio Pace knows the stats. The rate of survival for most startups is not pretty. In fact, his first attempt at building a company failed. But the Auth0 story is… Read More
Former executives from the National Security Agency, Microsoft, Hitachi, and other companies are behind a Seattle-area cybersecurity startup that just came out of stealth mode three years after it launched.… Read More
Next week, one of the biggest security conferences in the world, RSA, kicks off at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Each year, tens of thousands of information security… Read More
Amazon Web Services recently changed a policy that required security researchers to get permission before testing applications running on some of its most important services for security flaws, allowing customers… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tens of billions of devices, ranging from coffee makers to cars to spacecraft, could someday be connected to global networks thanks to what’s known as the Internet of… Read More
After plunging into the network security market nearly two years ago, Extrahop’s bookings have topped the $100 million mark, and now CEO Arif Kareem thinks the company is primed for… Read More
Interest from the federal government into Polyverse’s secure Linux product prompted several undisclosed “strategic investors” to get in on a new $2 million funding round for the Bellevue company. Polyverse… Read More