A German woman has died after being diverted from a hospital that had suffered a ransomware attack, allegedly the first death attributed directly to such an attack. The ransomware attack targeted the Duesseldorf University Hospital Sept. 10, resulting in critical systems at the hospital being shut down. As a result of the outage, patients seeking emergency care ...

TikTok could be heading toward an initial public offering subject to the deal between parent company ByteDance Ltd. and Oracle Corp. getting approval by the Trump administration. The claim comes from CNBC, which reported today that TikTok Global would be listed on a U.S. stock exchange with Oracle owning a minority stake — less than 20% ...

A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the Bluetooth software stack has the potential to expose billions of devices to hacking. Detailed by researchers at Purdue University, the new vulnerability has been dubbed BLESA, short for Bluetooth Low Energy Spoofing Attack. The vulnerability relates to the reconnection process in the BLE software stack. That process is ...

Workplace collaboration startup Air Labs Inc. said today it has raised $12 million in funding to hire more people and invest more in product development. The Series A round was led by Tiger Global and included Lerer Hippeau, WndrCo, Slack Ventures, Red Sea Ventures and Advancit Capital along with individual investors Joe Thomas, Jenny Fleiss, Nic Jammet and Brian ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted five Chinese nationals, two Malaysians and two Iranian nationals concerning alleged state-sponsored hacking campaigns. The Chinese nationals and the Malaysians were alleged today to be linked to a hacking group known by various names in the cybersecurity community, including APT41, Wicked Panda and Winnti. Two of the defendants named in ...

Apple Inc. has accused Epic Games Ltd.’s lawsuit as being a “campaign to reinvigorate interest in Fortnite” in its latest filing in the battle between the two companies. The 37-page filing Tuesday was filed in opposition to Epic’s application for a preliminary injunction that would force Apple to restore Fortnite to the App Store. Apple does not hold ...

Property technology startup Open Door Labs Inc. is the latest tech unicorn to go public as the company today confirmed it will do so through a reverse merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II. The transaction values Opendoor at $4.8 billion, with $1 billion in cash proceeds raised in the reverse merger. Founded in 2014, Opendoor ...

Society has not yet reached singularity, the hypothetical point in time at which technological growth surpasses human knowledge and will either destroy the world or save it. In a newly published roadmap, IBM today set stellar goals when it comes to a potential technology to reach that singularity: quantum computing. IBM’s roadmap details how Big Blue ...

Adobe Inc. shares rose in after-hours trading after the company reported record revenue in its fiscal third-quarter and beat analysts’ predictions. For the quarter ended Aug. 28, Adobe reported revenue of $3.23 billion, up 14% from a year ago. Adjusted profit per share rose 25%, to $2.57. Analysts had predicted $2.41 per share on revenue of $3.16 ...

Personally identifiable information relating to about 46,000 U.S. military veterans has been stolen in a cybersecurity incident involving a payments website operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The data breach involved “unauthorized users” gaining access to a VA application and changing financial information to divert payments from the department to community care providers “using ...