Apple Inc. announced today that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will be online only this year and will be held from June 6 through to June 10. Although Apple did not mention COVID-19 as a reason for holding WWDC22 virtually, it has done so in previous years because of the pandemic. Officially, Apple is pitching ...

German police, in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement authorities, said today they’ve takedown Hydra Market, the world’s largest darknet marketplace. The seizure of Hydra also saw the capture of 543 bitcoins from the market, currently worth about $25 million. Founded in 2015, Hydra Market is claimed to have had a darknet market share of around ...

Connected operations cloud startup Samsara Inc. has today announced a new integration with John Deere to empower better agricultural operations. The deal between the two companies sees Samsara and John Deere expanding upon its existing JDLink integration to deliver new features that provide greater visibility into support vehicles to optimize farming operations. JDLink is a connection that ...

Financial advisory and management services startup Sydecar Inc. has raised $8.3 million in new funding to hire more people across engineering, customer experience, marketing and operations, with an aim to expand its product offerings. Deciens Capital led the seed round announced today, with Pipeline Capital Partners, Anthemis Group, Hustle Fund VC and various angel investors also participating. ...

Email marketing platform Mailchimp, owned by Intuit Inc. since last year, has been hacked as part of a scheme to target Trezor cryptocurrency wallet service users. Bleeping Computer reported today that the hack started with employees of Mailchimp falling for a social engineering attack that led to the theft of their credentials. “On March 26, our ...

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced the release of FortiOS 7.2, the latest upgrade to its operating system and the foundation of the Fortinet Security Fabric. The latest release of FortiOS has more than 300 new features that enhance the ability to converge security at every network edge combined with the performance and scale, according to ...

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. today announced its latest endpoint detection and response release with additional threat-hunting and risk mitigation capabilities. Qualys’ Multi-Vector EDR 2.0 is pitched as improving alert prioritization and reducing the time needed to respond to threats. The updated Qualys Multi-Vector EDR operationalizes MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, allowing security practitioners to analyze and ...

After it was reported last month that Apple Inc. is working on a hardware subscription plan that included iPhones, noted Apple analyst Mark Gurman at Bloomberg now has more details — and when Android users call Apple users sheep, they may not be far wrong. The issue for Apple is that, unlike in the earlier days of ...

Two committees of the European Union parliament have voted in favor of draft legislation that would ban anonymous crypto-asset transactions. The proposed rules would require all crypto-asset transfers to be traced and identified to prevent their use in money laundering, terrorist financing and other crimes. The aim is to ensure crypto-assets such as bitcoin and ...

A newly discovered form of data wiper malware has been linked to an attack that caused widespread outages on the Viasat satellite internet service last month. The Viasat KA-SAT network was partially disrupted on Feb. 24, days after Russia invaded Ukraine. The attack affected several thousand customers in Ukraine and tens of thousands of customers ...