A judge has rejected a proposed settlement by Yahoo over its 2013 and 2014 data breaches, leaving parent company Verizon Communications Inc. in the soup once again. In the largest hack ever recorded, 3 billion Yahoo accounts were compromised in August 2013. with data stolen including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords ...

Heading toward a public offering of some sort later this year, Slack Technologies Inc. today announced that it has passed 10 million daily active users. The figure comes five months after the team chat service passed 8 million users and 16 months after it passed 6 million users. Perhaps even more important, Slack has also seen a ...

Fresh from the news of a surge in parent company TRON’s fortunes, BitTorrent Inc. managed to sell out more than $7 million in tokens in what some are suggesting may be a return of initial coin offerings. BitTorrent Inc., not to be confused with the file-sharing protocol of the same name, is responsible for the ongoing development of ...

Popular peer-to-peer bitcoin trading service LocalBitcoins Oy has been hacked, with about 8 bitcoin stolen. The hack, detailed by the company on Reddit, occurred Saturday and involved an unauthorized source who accessed and sent transactions from a number of affected accounts. “We were able to identify the problem, which was related to a feature powered by a third-party ...

Artificial intelligence programming startup Kite has raised $10 million in new funding to expand its research-and-development team and build new features to make developers more productive. Announced Monday, the round was led by Trinity Ventures with personal participation from GitHub Chief Executive Officer Nat Friedman. Several sites reported that the round was $17 million, but the ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is either in advanced talks to acquire or has acquired Israeli mobile camera technology startup Corephotonics Ltd., according to multiple reports. Reports of the possible acquisition first came Jan. 7 from Globes, with some sites saying the deal has now been sealed. The acquisition price is claimed to be in the vicinity ...

Cybersecurity services and investigation firm Nisos Inc. has raised slightly over $6 million in new funding from Columbia Capital. As part of the deal, Jason Booma, a partner at Columbia, has joined Nisos’ board along with David Northington, most recently a managing director at Accenture. Nisos was founded in 2015 by former U.S. government intelligence operators. Co-founder ...

While most cryptocurrencies have seen ongoing price slides since the market peaked in January 2018, a relative newcomer is bucking trends with solid growth over the last few months as it seeks to take on Ethereum. Called TRON, the cryptocurrency and blockchain platform debuted in December 2017. It’s pitched as a decentralized platform that aims to ...

A new campaign using the Redaman malware has been detected in what could be the return of banking malware that first swept much of the world in 2015-2016. Redaman is a form of banking malware that uses an application-defined “hook” procedure to monitor activity in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer and steal login details for ...

Despite seemingly constant reports of data breaches, a new study has found the introduction of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has resulted in a reduction in data being both exposed and stolen from companies that are GDPR-compliant. The claim comes from Cisco Systems Inc.’s new Data Privacy Benchmark Study based on data from 3,200 security ...