Microsoft Corp. has patched a major security flaw in Windows that was discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency, arguably making its first “Patch Tuesday” of the year one of the most exciting to date. The flaw, officially called CVE-2020-0601, affects Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server version 1803. Described as ...

Venture capital investments in the U.S. may be slowing a bit, and so are startup “exits” such as initial public stock offerings and acquisitions, but both remain near record highs as investors keep betting on continued growth in the tech sector. That’s the upshot of two different reports on the VC and startup funding business ...

A Texas school district is out $2.3 million after a targeted phishing campaign led to money being transferred to accounts controlled by those behind the scam. Details are a little slim, but it’s believed that the money was stolen over three transactions and involved an employee from the Manor Independent School District being deceived into altering ...

NortonLifeLock Inc. today said it has sold its ID Analytics business to LexisNexis Risk Solutions for $375 million as the company divests itself of unwanted business units following its separation from the now Broadcom Inc.-owned Symantec enterprise security business. ID Analytics became part of NortonLifeLock after being acquired by LifeLock Inc. in 2012 for an undisclosed sum. Symantec Inc. then acquired LifeLock for ...

The end of Windows 7 support is nigh as Microsoft Corp. will drop support for the operating system Tuesday for consumers. Business customers can pay for ongoing support, chiefly for security updates, but the decision to pull it for consumers was a long time coming. Windows 7 was launched in 2009 and was later replaced ...

Visa Inc. today announced it has signed a deal to acquire financial technology startup Plaid Financial Inc. for $5.3 billion in an all-cash deal. It’s one of largest tech acquisitions in recent times, beating PayPal Inc.’s acquisition of Honey Science Inc. for $4 billion in November. Founded in 2013, Plaid offers a financial application programming ...

More than 1 billion medical images are believed to be exposed online as medical practitioners continue to upload them to unsecured databases. Discovered by German cybersecurity firm Greenbone Networks, the exposure follows a similar report from the company in September that detailed 24 million medical records on 590 online medical image archive systems. The data, which ...

Hackers have been found using a malicious Microsoft Office 365 app to gain access to user accounts in the latest campaign targeting the popular service. Detailed last month by security researchers at PhishLabs but only recently picked up by other security experts, the campaign is described as using a previously unseen tactic in an effort to gain access to ...

Iranian hackers have hit Bahrain’s national oil company as a new report finds that Iranian state-sponsored hackers have also been targeting U.S. power utilities. The attack in Bahrain targeted oil company Bapco Dec. 29 and is said to have involved the use of the new strain of data-wiping malware. Dubbed “Dustman” by the Saudi Arabia National ...

Cheap smartphones sold in the U.S. through a government assistance program have been found to include unremovable malware. The malware was discovered by security researchers at Malwarebytes Inc., which publicized it Thursday. The phones are offered for sale by Assurance Wireless by Virgin Mobile via the Lifeline Assistance program, a U.S. Federal Communications Commission-funded program that offers communications services ...