Six tips for getting the most out of your SIEM investment
Eric Thomas Contributor Share on Twitter Eric Thomas is vice president of security GTM at Logz.io, an open-source observability platform for DevOps teams. Security information and event management (SIEM) is one of the most well-established categories of security software, having first been introduced about 20 years ago. Nevertheless, very little
Read moreAmazon’s Ring to pay $5.8M after staff and contractors caught snooping on customer videos, FTC says
Ring, the Amazon-owned maker of video surveillance devices, will pay $5.8 million over claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission that Ring employees and contractors had broad and unrestricted access to customers’ videos for years. The settlement was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on
Read moreAmazon’s Ring agrees to pay $5.8 million to settle FTC spying suit
Image: Ring Amazon’s Ring unit has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its doorbells illegally spied on users. The settlement addresses a lawsuit filed by the FTC Wednesday accusing Ring of unlawfully deceiving its customers over the privacy of their data and the videos
Read moreTwitter just closed the book on academic research
The twitter’s logo is pictured on screen reflected by mirrors in Mulhouse, eastern France on May 30, 2023. | Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images Twitter was once a mainstay of academic research — a way to take the pulse of the internet. But as new owner Elon Musk
Read moreClimate startup CUR8 raises $6.5M from GV for its market-making platform for carbon removals
The IPCC, has said the world needs to remove 10 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by 2050 in order to avoid a climate cataclysm. And, yes, there are now multiple methods for carbon removal today such as planting more trees (afforestation), sucking CO2 out of the
Read moreThe first episode of ‘Black Mirror’ S6 is a subscriber’s worst nightmare
Netflix announced Wednesday the official release date of “Black Mirror” season six alongside an unsettling new trailer. The series is set to premiere on the streamer on June 15. The trailer kicks off with a preview of the first episode, showing viewers a haunting scenario that – much like every
Read moreBlink launches Blink Copilot to bring generative AI to security operations
Blink CEO Gil Barak says there have been three distinct periods when it comes to security operations automation. The first required experts to code workflows, taking weeks or months to produce a single one. More recently, low code approaches let users drag and drop components into a workflow, creating the
Read moreSocial mapping platform Atly launches with $18M to be a Reddit for real-world locations
From Foursquare to Zenly, there hasn’t exactly been a shortage of location-centric social networks outside the usual Big Tech ecosystems, but for one reason or another things have never really worked out. Snap acquired Zenly and eventually shut it down despite its enduring popularity, and Foursquare is still chugging along
Read moreVartana lands a $20M investment to scale its sales closing platform
Vartana, a business-to-business (B2B) sales closing and financing platform, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital with participation from Mayfield and Audacious Ventures. The financing, which brings Vartana’s total raised to $39 million, will be put toward hiring and expanding
Read moreTwitter launches Community Notes for images
In an effort to put more onus on crowdsourced moderation, Twitter has launched Community Notes for images in posts. The company is aiming to address scenarios of morphed images or AI-generated images across the platform where the photos are posted. In other words, the platform wants to flag content like
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