Credit reporting company Experian plc has suffered a new data breach, with the credit scores of almost every person in the U.S. exposed through an unprotected application programming interface. Discovered and publicized April 28 by security researcher Bill Demirkapi, the breach involved a tool called the Experian Connect API that allows lenders to automate FICO-score ...

Spectre, a chip vulnerability first discovered in 2018 that came to involve more vulnerabilities that year, is back, as researchers have discovered new variants that affect all modern processors. Detailed this past week by researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of California at San Diego, the three new Spectre vulnerabilities were found in the ...

The local government of Whistler, a famous ski resort in British Columbia, Canada, has been struck by ransomware. The Resort Municipality of Whistler said in a statement that it had suffered a cybersecurity incident April 28 that has resulted in its temporarily suspending services. The suspension of services included phone, network and website access, with ...

The first-quarter smartphone shipment data from Canalys shows that the top two smartphone companies in the world are slowly shrinking in market share despite some reports focusing on Apple Inc. iPhone sales surging in the first quarter. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. maintained its lead with a 22% share of all smartphone sales in the first quarter, shipping ...

Shares in ride-hailing and food delivery companies fell across the board today after Labor Secretary Marty Walsh (pictured) said that gig-economy workers should be classified as employees. While seemingly not yet the official policy of the Biden administration, that Walsh (pictured) said so is described by Reuters as suggesting a shift in policy that could ...

The Ransomware Task Force, a coalition of experts from across various cybersecurity companies and government facilitated by the Institute for Security and Technology, has shared a framework of actions on how to disrupt ransomware as a business model. The paper, which notes that ransomware is no longer simply a financial crime but an urgent national security ...

Artificial intelligence-driven threat detection and response startup Vectra AI Inc. announced today it has raised $130 million in new funding to expand its platform and expand into new markets. The round was led by funds managed by Blackstone Growth and a number of existing investors. Notably, the funding was raised on a valuation of $1.2 billion ...

Financial services company First Horizon Corp. has suffered a data breach that saw customer accounts accessed and funds stolen. Disclosed in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the data breach is described as involving an authorized third party obtaining login credentials from an unknown source and then attempting to access customer accounts. ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. beat analyst estimates for its first-quarter earnings on strong demand for its mobile devices. For the quarter ended March 31, Samsung reported revenue of KWN 65.39 trillion ($59 billion), up 18% from the same quarter of 2020 and a record for its first quarter. Net income shot up 46% from a year ...

Apple Inc. beat market expectations today with its latest quarterly earnings report, but the company warned that it’s facing supply shortages in its current quarter. For its fiscal second quarter ended March 27, Apple reported revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54% year-over-year and quarterly earnings of $1.40 per share. Analysts had been predicting a profit of ...