The U.S. Department of Justice could file an antitrust lawsuit against Google LLC as soon as later this month, according to a report from The New York Times. Various reports have emerged over the last 12 months that both the Justice Department and state attorneys general have an ongoing investigation into the search giants practices. ...

Assist Wireless LLC, a U.S. mobile virtual network operator that provides phone services to the underprivileged with government support, has suffered a data breach with customer records found exposed online. The exposed customer data was discovered by security researcher John Wethington and first reported today by TechCrunch. Remarkably the data itself was found through a simple ...

Free stock-trading app maker Robinhood Market Inc. is reportedly being investigated over alleged nondisclosure as the company heads toward an initial public offering in the coming months. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating allegations that Robinhood previously failed to disclose its practice of selling clients’ orders to high-speed trading ...

Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today as investors decided to take profits despite the company beating predictions in its fiscal second-quarter earnings report and topping guidance for the new quarter. For the quarter ended July 31, CrowdStrike reported total revenue of $199 million, up 84% over the same quarter in 2019, ...

Service execution management firm ServiceMax Inc. has announced a new service that allows users to integrate their data with Salesforce.com Inc. ServiceMax Asset 360 for Salesforce combines ServiceMax’s asset-centric service with Salesforce Field Service enabling users to keep critical assets running for even more customers across a broader set of industries. The service delivers a 360-degree ...

Cybersquatting, the process by which domain names are registered to mimic those belonging to legitimate companies, has always been a problem. Now a new report from Palo Alto Networks Inc.‘s Unit 42 threat intelligence team details how the practice continues to rise when it comes to major brands. The report details how Palo Alto Networks’ ...

Ahead of a possible initial public offering that could come later this year, cryptocurrency startup Coinbase Inc. has welcomed two new people to its board. One is Gokul Rajaram, a veteran executive at Google Inc., Doordash Inc. and Square Inc. But arguably the marquee appointee is Silicon Valley legend Marc Andreessen. Andreessen is the co-author of Mosaic, ...

Facebook Inc. today issued a warning that it will block users in Australia from sharing stories from mainstream media ahead of a proposed law that will force internet companies to pay for the privilege of its users doing so. The proposed law, technically a “mandatory code of conduct,” was proposed by the Australian Competition and ...

A Russian national has been arrested for his attempt to bribe a Tesla Inc. employee to introduce ransomware at the electric car maker’s Nevada Gigafactory as part of an extortion scheme. The accused, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, was arrested Aug. 22 in Los Angles while attempting to flee the country and has been detained in custody following ...

Slack Technologies Inc. has fixed critical vulnerabilities in its desktop app, but the compensation paid to a researcher who uncovered the vulnerabilities has come in for criticism from the security community. The vulnerabilities were discovered by security engineer Oskars Vegeris of Evolution Gaming in January and shared privately with Slack at the time. The vulnerabilities allowed an ...