Critical Flaws Reported in Cisco VPN Routers for Businesses—Patch ASAP

Cisco has rolled out fixes for multiple critical vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Small Business routers that could potentially allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user on an affected device. The flaws — tracked from CVE-2021-1289 through CVE-2021-1295 (CVSS score 9.8) — impact RV160, RV160W, RV260, RV260P,…

TripActions Raises $155 Million in Series E Funding

On January 21, 2021, TripActions, the cloud-based travel and expense management platform, announced that they raised $155 million in Series E growth funding led by previous investor Andreessen Horowitz, investment firm Addition, and private investor Elad Gil. This most recent round of funding increases TripActions’ valuation to a whopping $5 billion, up $1 billion from just 18 months ago when they raised $250 million and were valued at $4 billion through Series D funding.