Acquisition talks between Microsoft Corp. and messaging platform provider Discord Inc. are now in an advanced stage, with a deal possibly coming as soon as a next month, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal. Discord’s exploration of a sale first emerged March 23, with the company said to have been approached by multiple ...

The Biden administration is planning an executive order that would force software vendors to notify federal government customers if they have suffered a cybersecurity breach, according to a report from Reuters. The order as it stands is said to be in draft with no decision made on the final content. However, it could be released ...

Insurance company CNA Financial Corp. has suffered a cybersecurity attack and the company’s offline as of late Wednesday. The exact form of the attack is unknown. The company said on its website that it had been targeted by a “sophisticated cybersecurity attack.” The attack is said by the company to have caused “network disruption and ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Japanese telecommunications company and investment giant SoftBank Group Corp. for alleged market manipulation. Founded in 1981, SoftBank holds a significant share — 21.2% as of 2020 of Japan’s mobile phone subscription market — but is best known in the W est for its prolific investment portfolio. The ...

Facebook Inc. said today that it has taken down a group of Chinese hackers that were targeting Uyghur activists. Uyghurs are a Turkik ethnic group of people who live in China’s Xinjiang Province. Officially the Chinese Communist Party is putting them in “re-education camps,” but according to some critics, they’re subject to genocide. Xinjiang is also ...

The California State Controller’s Office is the latest victim of a data breach, with the records of about 9,000 people stolen. The data breach was caused by a phishing attack in which an employee of the State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Division clicked on a link in an email they and then entered a user ...

When most people think of gaming consoles, Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co. Ltd. would come to mind, but in a completely unexpected twist, Qualcomm Inc. reportedly wants to be on that list. According to a report from Android Police, Qualcomm is planning to launch a console that bears a strong resemblance to Nintendo’s ...

After years of reports, free stock-trading startup Robinhood Market Inc. is finally going public after confidentially submitting its initial public offering paperwork to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. There’s really nothing confidential about the filing, since Robinhood posted about it on its blog. Other than providing a basic statement about offering common stock in its ...

Messaging platform provider Discord Inc. is exploring a sale that could value the company at $10 billion, and Microsoft is reportedly leading the suitors. That’s according to reports Monday from VentureBeat, which first reported Discord’s plans, and Tuesday from Bloomberg, which reported Microsoft’s involvement. One of Bloomberg’s sources said the talks were early and there’s no ...

Multinational oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell plc is the latest victim of a data breach related to a vulnerability in software from Accellion Inc. In a statement last week, Shell said that the data security incident involved Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance that it uses to transfer large data files securely. The data accessed, during a ...