A vulnerability in an iOS call recording app was found to give access to recorded phone calls by knowing the phone number of a user. Detailed today by Anand Prakash from PingSafe AI, the vulnerability was discovered in an app known as “Automatic Call Recorder” that had been downloaded more than a million times from the ...

Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have shut down an encrypted messaging app and arrested criminals after successfully cracking the encryption used by the app. The app in question goes by the name of Sky ECC made by Sky Global Inc. and is claimed to have become popular with criminals since it launched two years ...

Amazon.com Inc. has been reported to be developing a home robot of some form or another since at least 2018, but exactly what form the robot would take or where it is in terms of development has been open to speculation. A new report today from Business Insider (via Slashgear) says the robot, being developed by ...

Verkada Inc., a Silicon Valley-funded security camera startup, has suffered a data breach with hackers reportedly able to gain access to 150,000 live camera feeds from companies, jails, police departments and schools. The data breach was led by an “international hacker collective” and intended to show the ease with which systems could be broken into, ...

A campaign by Chinese hackers that targeted Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange Server, an attack Microsoft warned about earlier this month, is larger than originally believed and has prompted the establishment of an emergency task force. The vulnerabilities are being exploited by a group dubbed Hafnium, which is described as being “highly skilled and sophisticated.” The group ...

Bitcoin technology and financial services firm NYDIG Execution LLC said today it has raised $200 million in new growth funding to help it fund business initiatives relating to bitcoin. The growth capital round was led by Stone Ridge Holdings Group, Morgan Stanley, New York Life, MassMutual, Soros Fund Management and FS Investments and included Bessemer Venture Partners and FinTech ...

PayPal Holdings Inc. today announced it has acquired digital asset startup Curv Inc. to allow it to expand its initiatives in support of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Although the purchase price was not disclosed, Decrypt reported it was nearly $200 million. Founded in 2018, Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure technology designed to ...

Apple Inc. today released software updates for its range of iPhone, iPad, Mac computers and the Apple Watch that address a vulnerability in the WebKit engine that powers the Safari browser. The security updates to iOS 14.4.1, iPadOS 14.4.1, macOS 11.2.3 and watchOS 7.32 come a little over a month after the 14.4 release in ...

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. is the latest victim of a data breach, as the Clop ransomware gang posted on its site screenshots of files allegedly belonging to the company. Qualys confirmed the attack Wednesday, describing it as a “security incident” that exploited a previously identified vulnerability in software from Accellion Inc. to transfer information from the ...

Virtual events platform startup Hopin Ltd. said today it has raised $400 million in new funding to accelerate growth, scale up operations and strengthen its team and platform. The Series C round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst and included IVP, Coatue, DFJ Growth, Northzone, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global. The investment values Hopin at $5.65 ...