Shares in Twitter Inc. rose slightly in after-hours trading after the microblogging service beat analysts’ predictions for its fourth-quarter earnings but warned of increasing expenses in the year ahead. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Twitter reported a profit of $222 million, or 38 cents a share on revenue of $1.29 billion, up 28% from a ...

The price of bitcoin smashed through $40,000 today to hit new record highs amid reports that Apple Inc. could be interested in the cryptocurrency and Tesla Inc. had purchased $1.5 billion in bitcoin. Although bitcoin first broke through the $40,000 mark in January, its price had varied since from just below $30,000 through to nearly ...

Sadly in 2021 not a day passes without news of a company, government or organization being targeted by hackers, but usually cyberattacks don’t try to poison thousands of people. That’s exactly what nearly happened last week in Pinellas County, Florida. An unknown attacker remotely accessed a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, on Friday, Feb. ...

Apparently there will be no Apple Car coming out of South Korean companies. Both Hyundai Motor Co. and its subsidiary Kia Corp. today denied reports that they’re in talks with Apple Inc. to develop an electric autonomous vehicle. Apple’s efforts to build a car go back to 2015, although it was reported in 2016 that the Apple car ...

The Ziggy ransomware group has shut down and released a decryption key amid concern that it may be targeted by law enforcement, according to a report today from Bleeping Computer. The group reportedly announced on a Telegram group that it would be shutting down, with a message that included the phrase “we are very sad about what ...

Tens of thousands of patient records stolen from two hospital chains have been published on the dark web, the shady corner of the internet where illicit goods are sold. The records were stolen from Leon Medical Centers, which serves eight locations in Miami, Florida and Nocona General Hospital, which has three locations in Texas, according to a ...

A new botnet has been discovered in the wild that targets Android devices to facilitate distributed denial-of-service attacks. Discovered and detailed Tuesday by researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab, the botnet was first detected on Jan. 26. It was initially believed to be an outbreak of the infamous Mirai botnet, but further investigation found that the network traffic ...

Cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform startup DroneDeploy announced today it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its products beyond aerial capture, accelerate its expansion into Europe and explore opportunities for strategic acquisitions. The Series E round was led by Energize Ventures and AirTree and included Bessemer Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Emergence, AngelPad, Uncork ...

Genetic testing company 23andMe Inc. today announced it will go public via a special-purpose acquisition company, the latest tech startup to take the SPAC route. Under the deal, valued at $3.5 billion, 23andMe will merge with VG Acquisition Corp., a SPAC founded by Virgin founder Richard Branson. As part of the deal, 23andMe will also raise $250 ...

A recently discovered root exploit vulnerability in Linux has been found to affect Apple Inc.’s macOS as well. The vulnerability allows for an attacker to trigger a so-called heap overflow in Sudo, a program for Unix-like computer operating systems. It allow users to run security privileges of another user in order to gain access to ...