A grand jury in Santa Clara, California, has indicted Thomas Moyer, Apple Inc.’s head of global security, and three other men concerning an alleged bribery scheme to obtain concealed gun carry permits. The other people charged, Undersheriff Rick Sung and Captain James Jensen, are said in the indictment to have been the government officials who requested the ...

U.K. soccer club Manchester United has been forced to take some systems offline following a cyberattack. The attack occurred Friday evening U.K. time Nov. 20. The club described the attack only as “a sophisticated operation by organized cybercriminals.” Manchester United said in a statement Nov. 20 that it had extensive protocols and procedures in place for ...

Records of up to 10 million users belonging to Pray.com, a provider of daily Christian prayers and faith-based audio content, have been found exposed online in the latest case of unsecured cloud data. Discovered by researchers at vpnMentor and reported Nov. 19, the 1.19 million files relating to 1 million to 10 million users dating from ...

The hijacking of domain names belonging to Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid and several other crypto sites has been attributed to hackers tricking GoDaddy Inc. employees into handing over ownership. The hack of Liquid, first detected Nov. 13, involved the incorrect transfer of control of an account and domain to a malicious actor. With this access, those behind the attack changed ...

Business email compromise cybersecurity startup Abnormal Security Corp. revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to double the size of its machine-learning and data science teams. The Series B round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Greylock. Although the valuation on the deal was not officially disclosed, Forbes, quoting a source familiar with the ...

Go SMS Pro, a messaging app with over 100 million Android installations, has been found to expose user data through poor security practices. Discovered and publicized today by researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs, the data is exposed because of the way the app sends media to nonusers. When both users have the app, Go SMS Pro sends media within ...

Amazon.com Inc. has laid off dozens of staff from its Prime Air drone delivery unit as it seeks to outsource drone manufacturing. The Financial Times reported today that the layoffs involve research and development staff along with manufacturing staff in a push to get what it said is its “heavily delayed ambitions off the ground.” The Times ...

The antitrust investigations into Facebook Inc. are entering their final stages, targeting the social media giant’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, according to a report today from The Washington Post. Reports that Facebook was being investigated by the U.S. federal government and states go back to 2019, with more recent reports saying an antitrust lawsuit is likely ...

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid, the 18th largest exchange in the world by volume, has been hacked and customer data stolen. Detected on Nov. 13, the hack wasn’t a direct attack on the company’s infrastructure. Instead, it involved a domain name hosting provider that manages one of company’s domain names incorrectly transferring control of the account and ...

Hybrid cloud management startup CloudBolt Software Inc. has raised $35 million in new funding to build out its technology vision, accelerate international expansion and invest in new partnerships. The Series B round consisted of a mix of equity and venture debt. The equity raise was led by Insight Partners while the venture debt was issued by Hercules ...