Apple Inc. is facing delays of between four weeks and two months in the production of the iPhone 12 5G, according to a report today in the Nikkei Asian Review. The delays are said to the result of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic that closed factories and offices in mainland China earlier in the year. ...

Data belonging to more than one million students in the U.S. and Canada who are users of online study service OneClass have been found exposed online in the latest case of cloud database misconfiguration. The breach was revealed by security researchers at vpnMentor late last week. The 27-gigabyte database with nearly 9 million records was found on an ...

The University of California at San Francisco has become the latest organization to cave into hackers behind a cyberattack, paying a $1.14 million ransom following a “security incident” earlier this month. While somewhat vague on the details of the attack, such as never once using the term ransomware, the university said Friday that the incident involved ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has made an offer to acquire food delivery service Postmates Inc. according to a report late today from The New York Times. The price of the offer was not mentioned. Talks are said to be ongoing, with a deal possible as soon as Monday evening, but neither company has commented on the ...

Autonomous endpoint protection startup Cynet Security Ltd. said today it has raised $18 million in new funding to develop its CyOps team and fuel growth in the U.S. and international markets. The Series B+ round was led by Telekom Innovation Pool, Deutsche Telekom’s strategic investment fund and included BlueRed Partners, Merlin International, Norwest Venture Partners and ...

In the culture wars in the U.S., Twitter Inc. has often been targeted thanks to limiting content and also not limiting content, the latter specifically tweets from President Donald Trump. Some accuse Twitter of having a left-wing bias in banning accounts from those on the right of politics, most recently Carpe Donktum, a conservative who is ...

With Apple Inc.’s first exclusively online Worldwide Developers Conference completed last week, the rumor mill has turned to what Apple may announce with the next iteration of its iPhone line. For a long time, Ming-Chi Kuo has been the most accurate analyst when it comes to Apple rumors of any sort. Kuo today released a new ...

Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks Inc. today detailed a malicious Docker Hub account that was hosting six malicious images used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. The malicious account is believed to have been active since October 2019. The code used in the malicious images was designed to evade network detection by using network anonymizing tools such ...

Aspire News, an app designed to assist domestic violence victims, has suffered a data breach with recordings from victims found on unsecured cloud storage. The breach was discovered by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar at vpnMentor, which revealed it today. The data on the misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 bucket included more than 4,000 voice recordings ...

Messaging startup Telegram Group Inc. is close to settling its case with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its sale of Gram cryptocurrency for its TON blockchain network in 2018. Under the terms of a proposed settlement made public today, Telegram has agreed to pay a penalty of $18.5 million to the SEC as well ...