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No-Password Login Platform Trusona Secures $20M
Investments // January 15, 2020

Capitalizing on a major ideological shift within technology firms, online privacy and security company Trusona has raised $20 million, with contributions from Georgian Partners, Microsoft’s M12, Kleiner Perkins, OurCrowd, Seven Peaks Ventures and Akamai. Trusona utilizes popular new technologies other than passwords — including biometrics...

Cross-Border Payment Efforts Grab Funding
B2B Payments // February 14, 2019

Amid the battle heating up between Ripple and SWIFT over payments infrastructure, SendFriend, a Ripple partner, gets funding for its cross-border payments efforts. Elsewhere, MUFG forges ahead with blockchain-based payment efforts.

Bitcoin Daily: MUFG Bank, FinTech Akamai Team On Blockchain Tech; Ethereum Messaging App Status Revamps...
Bitcoin // February 14, 2019

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is teaming up with Akamai Technologies to create a payments network based on blockchain, CoinDesk reported. MUFG said the platform, dubbed the Global Open Network, will handle more than 1 million transactions per second. The system is said to be created...

DDoS Attacks With Cryptocurrency Demands Increasing
Security & Fraud // March 05, 2018

Distributed denial of service attacks, otherwise known as DDoS, have now added a cryptocurrency mining twist to the scam, requiring victims to pay the ransom. According to a report in Fortune, Akamai, the internet services company, was looking into the increase in DDoS attacks when...

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No-Password Login Platform Trusona Secures $20M

January 15, 2020
Capitalizing on a major ideological shift within technology firms, online privacy and security company Trusona has raised $20 million, with contributions from Georgian Partners, Microsoft’s M12, Kleiner Perkins, OurCrowd, Seven Peaks Ventures and Akamai. Trusona utilizes popular new technologies other than passwords — including biometrics and more — to provide businesses with an array of […]

Bitcoin Daily: MUFG Bank, FinTech Akamai Team On Blockchain Tech; Ethereum Messaging App Status Revamps...

February 14, 2019
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is teaming up with Akamai Technologies to create a payments network based on blockchain, CoinDesk reported. MUFG said the platform, dubbed the Global Open Network, will...

DDoS Attacks With Cryptocurrency Demands Increasing

March 05, 2018
Distributed denial of service attacks, otherwise known as DDoS, have now added a cryptocurrency mining twist to the scam, requiring victims to pay the ransom. According to a report in...

Tech, Security Firms Join Forces To Take Down WireX

August 29, 2017
A group of technology and security companies joined forces despite being competitors to take down WireX, a new cybercrime machine that was made up of tens of thousands of Android...