Ex-Thomson Reuters CEO joins London cybersecurity startup

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The former chief executive of Thomson Reuters has become a strategic adviser to a London-based cybersecurity startup whose clients include the UK government and Nato. Tom Glocer, who stepped down as CEO of the financial information provider in 2012, has The post Ex-Thomson Reuters CEO joins […]

Security Startup Grabs $22M To Safeguard Corporate Email

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. The Business Email Compromise is now a top concern for the enterprise and security providers alike, especially since regulators have released […]

This fintech startup has a solution to credit card fraud

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Scramcard, a startup founded by former Westpac chief security officer Simon Hewitt, wants to solve credit card fraud – with something that looks like a credit card. Credit and debit card fraud cost banks and businesses over $16.31 billion globally last year. Banks absorbed 62% of […]

Native startup lands look on ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ season premiere

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Central Florida entrepreneur Chris Gilpin nonetheless pinches himself when he thinks about subsequent Friday’s episode of ABC’s Shark Tank. Gilpin, 34, of DeBary, was chosen from about 30,000 unique candidates to be on nationwide TV pitching his product for this season. He managed to get on […]

Israeli cyber start-up Checkmarx nets $84m investment

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans raeli cyber-security start-up Checkmarx announced Thursday that it had received an $84 million investment from New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Venture Partners. The new round of capital will be primarily used to further accelerate growth through product innovation and global expansion. Details […]

Fraud-Fighting Credit Card Startup Final Raises $1M In Seed Money

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans This October, the United States will hopefully be fully converted to EMV card security, a system designed to combat fraud and identity theft, which has hit major chains like Target as of the last few years. A group of people who were victims of that data […]

New political tech startup: Votus, Inc.

“I don’t think that people in this country have a meaningful way to engage with their government and part of that is because we need a new system and a new way of doing things –that became the birth of Votus,” says third year law student Brandon Harris. As President of Votus Inc., a new […]

Antivirus startup linked to infamous Chinese hacker

Antivirus startup linked to infamous Chinese hacker ‘This may all be a strange coincidence or hoax,’ the reporter who discovered the link warned By Antone Gonsalves CSO – Anvisoft, a Chinese antivirus startup, has been linked to an infamous hacker suspected of developing sophisticated malware used to siphon sensitive information from Defense Department contractors in […]