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 ...

Intel Corp. has sold its Enpirion power management and controller product line to Richtek Technology Corp., a subsidiary of Taiwanese semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. for $85 million. Enpirion was found in 2001 by a team of technology experts from Bell Laboratories with a focus on power management architecture, power semiconductor devices and high-frequency magnetic materials. According to ...

VMware today formally entered the blockchain business with the commercial launch of VMware Blockchain, a platform designed to allow enterprises to build networks and deploy decentralized applications. The new service, several years in the making, offers businesses an extensible and scalable enterprise-grade platform to unlock data silos and to free up data to flow security, ...

News of yet another company exposing its data to all and sundry on cloud storage is so normal now that you can pre-write the news and insert the name of the company. This time, however, Amazon Web Services Inc. itself allegedly allows hackers to get access to user data through its application programming interfaces. The claim came ...