A range of newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting Bluetooth could affect billions of devices that use the common wireless connectivity standard. Discovered and detailed today by the Automated Systems Security Research Group at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the family of vulnerabilities has been dubbed “BrakTooth.” The researchers uncovered 16 new security vulnerabilities, with 20 ...

Swiss secure email provider Proton Technologies AG has been forced to defend itself after providing an internet address of a French climate activist to authorities despite having a no-IP address logging policy. ProtonMail, founded in 2014, is one of the leading privacy-focused email services online and promotes itself as providing secure email communication. The service ...

The U.S. Cyber Command issued a warning Friday that mass exploitation of Atlassian Corp. PLC’s Confluence software is taking place and that users should patch their installations immediately. The vulnerability, formally named CVE-2021-26084, was revealed by Atlassian on Aug. 25 and was described as allowing an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code on a Confluence Server or data ...

Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi Inc. is entering the electric vehicle business at a time that Apple Inc. continues to struggle to bring a car to market. Often referred to as the Apple of China, Xiaomi may not be a well-known name in the U.S., but it surpassed Apple in July to become the second-largest smartphone ...

The Conti ransomware gang is actively targeting unpatched Microsoft Corp. Exchange servers through the same exploit used to target servers earlier this year. Discovered and detailed Friday by researchers at Sophos plc, Conti is targeting networks with ProxyShell, an evolution of the ProxyLogon attack method used by the Epsilon Red ransomware gang in May. Conti affiliates ...

A now patched vulnerability in the Facebook Inc.-owned WhatsApp messaging service could have led to user data being exposed. Discovered by researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the vulnerability is described as an “out-of-bounds read-write vulnerability.” While the flaw required complex steps to exploit, it could have allowed an attacker to read sensitive information ...

Shares in cybersecurity firm Secureworks Corp. plunged in regular trading today after the company missed most analyst expectations in its second-quarter earnings report. For the quarter ending July 31, Secureworks reported revenue of $134.2 million, down 3.1% from the second quarter of last year. Profit before costs such as stock compensation came in at $900,000 ...

Shares in DocuSign Inc. dropped slightly in after-hours trading despite the digital document signing tools company beating analysts’ expectations in its quarterly earnings report. For the quarter ending July 31, DocuSign reported total revenue of $511.8 million and a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $208 million or 47 cents per share. Analysts had ...

Connected operations cloud startup Samsara Inc. today filed its paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The number of shares to be issued or the amount the company is seeking to raise was not disclosed. Yahoo Finance noted that the IPO is expected to take place after the SEC completes its review. ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced a Sept. 22 event to reveal new Surface hardware along with an update on Windows 11. Microsoft traditionally holds a reveal event in the fall. Reports heading into the event include the debut of the Surface Duo 2, a new Surface Pro 8 and the new Surface Go 3. There’s also the ...