A major U.S. fuel pipeline system has been shut down following a ransomware attack. The pipeline system, owned and operated by the Colonial Pipeline Co., carries more than 100 million gallons of gasoline, diesel, home heating fuel and jet fuel a day and links refineries in Texas to New York via the East Coast. In ...

Ryuk, one of the better-known and more insidious forms of ransomware, has been targeting hospital and healthcare providers over the last year, but exactly how it gets into networks to begin with has varied between attacks. The path of infection for most ransomware is using phishing, followed by targeting servers with vulnerabilities. But a new ...

A vulnerability found in chips manufactured by Qualcommm Inc. that are used in 40% of the world’s smartphones can allow an attacker to inject malicious code. Discovered and publicized today by security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the vulnerability is found in Qualcomm’s mobile station modem, the chip responsible for cellular communication. MSM is ...

Google LLC today announced that it will start automatically enrolling account users into two-factor authentication. Announced on World Password Day, the move is pitched by Google as increasing account security by removing “the single biggest threat to online security”: passwords. “They are easy to steal, they’re hard to remember and managing them is tedious,” Mark ...

Shares in Square Inc. rose only slightly in after-hours trading despite the financial services provider smashing analyst forecasts on both revenue and profit. For the quarter ended March 31, Square reported revenue of $5.06 billion, a nearly fourfold increase from a year ago and up from $3.16 billion in the previous quarter. Square reported a ...

Interactive exercise equipment company Peloton Interactive Inc. has suffered a potential data breach after it was discovered that its application programming interface exposed user data including private accounts. The revelation came on the same day the company was forced to recall two of its treadmills following the death of a six-year-old child. The API vulnerability was ...

Enterprise cryptocurrency wallet and custodial services startup BitGo Inc. has been acquired by Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. for $1.2 billion. Founded in 2013, BitGo offers enterprise-grade multiuser cryptocurrency wallets along with application programming interface access to its underlying security platform. Offering “multisig,” for multisignature, the company’s cryptocurrency wallets require a transaction to have two or more signatures before ...

Shares in Uber Technologies Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after the ride-hailing giant reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter revenue, despite a lower-than-expected loss. For the quarter ended March 31, Uber reported a loss of $108 million, or six cents a share, on revenue of $2.9 billion on a loss of $108 million. Analysts were predicting a ...

Cloud cyber resilience specialist Accurics Inc. today announced that its open-source project Terrascan now integrates with the Argo Project to enhance cloud security. Terrascan is used to manage and process all types of point clouds. The service offers import and project structuring tools to handle the massive amounts of points of a laser scanning campaign as well ...

Shares in Alteryx Inc. rose strongly in after-hours trading today after the data analytics software provider reported a smaller net loss than expected by analysts in its first-quarter earnings report. For the quarter ended March 31, Alteryx reported revenue of $118.8 million, up 9% year-over-year. The company had a net loss of $40.7 million, or 61 cents a ...