Monthly Archives: May 2015

Virtual Container Security Suite TwistLock Launches with $2.5M Seed Funding

Tel Aviv and San Francisco-based startup Twistlock announced on Thursday that it received $2.5 million in seed funding from YL Ventures. The company will use the funding to launch it’s security suite focused on container security. Twistlock seeks to solve what it sees as two problems with using container technology:… Continue reading

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Cloud Storage Company Founded by Kim Dotcom Fails to Go Public as Planned

Mega, the cloud storage company founded by Kim Dotcom, has failed to list on the New Zealand Stock Exchange about a year after it announced that it would achieve the listing through reverse takeover. Continue reading

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QTS Buys Government Cloud Heavyweight Carpathia for $326M

Data center provider QTS Realty Trust has agreed to buy Carpathia Hosting, a colocation, cloud, and managed services provider that does a lot of business with U.S. government agencies, for $326 million. Continue reading

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Public Interest Registry Launches OnGood for NGOs to Increase Awareness Online

The Public Interest Registry (PIR) has officially launched its OnGood community website on Wednesday, making it generally available to international non-governmental organizations who register for .NGO and .ONG domain names. Continue reading

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Researchers Find Vulnerability in WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin eShop

Another vulnerability has been found in a WordPress plug-in, this one an arbitrary variable overwrite, which was publicly disclosed Wednesday by High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab. The eShop WordPress Plugin version 6.3.11 was discovered on April 15 to have insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the “eshopcart” HTTP cookie. Continue reading

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