Cryptocurrency-based crime hit a new record high in 2021, nearly double the figure from the year before, but at a far slower rate than the growth of the overall market. That’s according to data from Chainalysis Inc., which notes that although the headline cryptocurrency crime figure may seem bad, it does not tell the whole story. ...

When many think of electric cars, the first company that might jump to mind is Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc.. But some 30 or so years ago, when people were asked about what’s the best maker of televisions and high-tech gear, many would have said Sony Corp. Now, the famous marketing line “It’s a Sony” might ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has threatened to take legal action against companies that have not patched the Apache Log4j security vulnerabilities, which first emerged on Dec. 13. The Log4j vulnerabilities, including subsequent others, allow hackers to access affected systems. The exploits were targeted by not only run-of-the-mill criminal hackers but also state-sponsored hacking groups as ...

Sega Europe Ltd. is the latest company to be found to be exposing data via a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 bucket. Detailed Dec. 30 by security researcher Aaron Phillips, the exposed bucket contained multiple sets of AWS keys which could have been used to access many of Sega Europe’s cloud services. MailChimp and Steam ...

Agricultural hardware maker John Deere today debuted a fully autonomous tractor at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show. The autonomous tractor combines the company’s 8R tractor with a TruSet-enabled chisel plow, GPS guidance system and new advanced technologies. Those technologies include six pairs of stereo cameras that enable 360-degree obstacle detection and distance calculation. Images captured ...

Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today announced a new partnership to accelerate the adoption of augmented reality in both the consumer and the enterprise sectors. Announced at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show, the partnership will see Qualcomm work with Microsoft across several initiatives to support the ecosystem. These initiatives include the development of custom AR ...

Updated: Nonfungible token marketplace OpenSea today said it has raised $300 million in new funding and, according to a separate report, it’s also in talks to acquire digital wallet provider Dharma Labs Inc. Paradigm and Coatue led the Series C round, according to the New York Times on a valuation of $13.3 billion. A previous ...

AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. have agreed to delay their 5G expansion plans a day after both rejected a U.S. government request to do so. The request for both to delay their 5G rollouts came from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and FAA Administrator Steve Dickson ...

Two Israeli media outlets have been hacked with a threatening message left in relation to the killing of an Iranian general two years ago. The two targets were Jerusalem Post, an English language newspaper, and the Twitter Inc. account of the Hebrew language news site Maarvi. The hackers posted a picture of a fist firing ...

Former Theranos Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty today on four of the 11 counts she was being tried on, putting an end to one of the most sordid and downright strange tales of venture capital-funded tech startups to date. The tale of Theranos is a long one. Founded in Palo Alto in ...