Wiretap, a security intelligence platform founded in Columbus, announced this week the close of a $3 million Series A funding. The investment, led by Pittsburgh-based Draper Triangle Ventures, along with the Columbus-based Ohio Innovation Fund, will be used for product development and organizational growth. “We are incredibly excited to partner with Draper Triangle and the [...]
The Port Clinton Republican who proposed a bill to assist Ohio schools with the purchase of technology and to make physical alterations to improve tech infrastructure and school security has reintroduced the measure after last session’s bill did not advance past committee. Rep. Steve Arndt, in House Bill 37, assigns the responsibility to the state’s [...]
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump hammered rival Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign for failing to prevent the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when she was secretary of state. Soon he’ll be the one responsible for protecting America’s diplomats, but he’s offered virtually no insight into how he’ll do that. After the 2012 [...]
Columbus-based Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. this week announced a plan to expand coverage to include workers’ compensation insurance. The nearly 90-year-old firm is partnering with West Virginia-based BrickStreet Mutual through affiliation agreements to diversify risk, expand agency distribution and improve purchasing power through increased economies of scale, company officials said in a press release announcing [...]
LONDON — As Yahoo’s embattled email service suffers through a slew of bad news, including a hack that compromised more than 500 million accounts, some users are finding it hard to leave. Automatic email forwarding was disabled at the beginning of the month, several users told The Associated Press. While those who’ve set up forwarding [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — More sophisticated cameras. Security robots. Customers feeling shaken by recent attacks at U.S. malls may not notice huge changes — but mall operators are testing and putting in place new technologies and other measures to offer people more protection without intruding too much on their shopping time. Mall executives say shoppers [...]
Just as Mastercard, the world’s second-largest credit card company, reported last week that 80 percent of its U.S. consumer credit cards have chips, researchers have found that hackers could continue to counterfeit credit cards by making the chip security feature seem nonexistent. It’s because of the magnetic strip, the United Press International report outlined. Credit [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Copacabana Beach is an Olympic construction site. The beach volleyball venue is going up, broadcast studios rise on scaffolding above the sand and a mammoth tent is jammed with thousands of pricey souvenirs. But there are few signs across town in crumbling, working-class areas that the Rio de Janeiro Olympics open [...]