In an evolution in ransomware and data extortion, gangs are reported to be now offering the ability to search stolen data in an effort to have victims pay ransom demands. Bleeping Computer reported today that the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang was the first to offer the feature, announcing that they have created a searchable database with leaks ...

Apple Inc.’s Project Titan self-driving car project continues to be troubled, with a new report detailing delays and issues with the company’s efforts. The Information today detailed a chronology of the car, covering aspects of its development, Apple’s ability to retain talent and issues with the technology it’s trying to use. Although some of the report ...

Technology company and defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. has reportedly ended talks to acquire some or all of the controversial Israeli spyware maker NSO Group Ltd. L3Harris was first reported to be in talks with NSO on June 14, although what it attempted to acquire was unclear. One report suggested that L3Harris was interested in acquiring only NSO’s ...

A trove of more than 100,000 documents belonging to Uber Technologies Inc. leaked to The Guardian and then shared with other media outlets and organizations details how the company used dubious tactics and lobbying to grow its business. Dubbed the Uber Files, the leak consists of 124,000 documents, including more than 83,000 emails, iMessage and ...

Social media accounts belonging to Disneyland were hacked this morning, with the hacker posting racist and offensive content. A self-described “super hacker” going by the name of David Do claimed responsibility for the hack, saying that he had hacked Disneyland’s Instagram and Facebook accounts to “bring revenge” on the company’s Anaheim theme park. In one ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances, dedicated Mac mini computers attached through Thunderbolt to the AWS Nitro System, its computing virtualization platform. The new instances allow the Mac mini to appear and behave like any other Amazon EC2 instance and enable developers to access machines built around ...

Updated: Elon Musk today sent a letter to Twitter Inc.’s chief legal officer saying he intends to pull out of his $44 billion deal to buy the company, but the microblogging company says it plans to enforce the deal in court if necessary. “Mr. Musk is terminating the Merger Agreement because Twitter is in material breach ...

The number of venture capital deals has continued to thrive in the first half of the year but the value of deals has dropped, according to a first-look release early Thursday from PitchBook-NVCA ahead of its quarterly Venture Monitor report next week. PitchBook-NVCA says the number of deal counts has stayed relatively high across all stages, with seed ...

A community college with 12,500 students in California has been hit by a cyberattack that took down online services and phone lines. The attack, targeting the College of the Desert, took place on July 4. The specific form of the attack was not disclosed. A spokesperson for the school told the Desert Sun Tuesday that the ...

The U.S. government is warning healthcare and public health care organizations to be on alert for attacks by North Korean state-sponsored hackers using Maui ransomware to target the sector. The alert, issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and the Department of the Treasury, states that multiple ransomware attacks using ...