Some 3 million credit card numbers belonging to customers of Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc., the largest BBQ franchise in the U.S., are being offered for sale on the dark web after the company was hacked. The stolen credit card details were discovered on a dark web carding site called “Jokers Stash” by security researchers at Gemini ...

Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. has been hacked and the bookseller warned customers their data has been stolen. Barnes & Noble said it was hacked Oct. 10. The details are somewhat vague and the company only said it was a “victim of a cybersecurity attack.” According to an email sent to customers, Barnes & Noble ...

Members of the transnational cybercrime group QQAAZZ have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on various charges relating to their involvement in providing services to high-profile cybercrime gangs. The QQAAZZ members indicted are alleged to have provided money-laundering services to groups behind Dridix, TrickBot and GozNym. TrickBot is the best-known of the three: ...

Ahead of its forthcoming initial public offering, cybersecurity firm McAfee LLC remains busy with the launch today of a new bundle for the education sector. The new products, McAfee Secure School Suites and McAfee MVISION Mobile Advanced, are being offered exclusively to McAfee’s education customers to ensure all devices are protected from threats such as ransomware ...

Alphabet Inc.-owned X Development LLC, known for its so-called “moonshot” technologies, today launched a new division that’s designed to improve farming. Called “Mineral,” the new division is the result of an X project previously referred to as “The Computational Agriculture Project.” Mineral launches with an autonomous robotic plant buggy designed to analyze crops. The buggy is powered by solar panels ...

Autonomous building platform startup PassiveLogic Inc. announced today it has raised $16 million in new funding to accelerate research and development. The Series A round was led by Keyframe Capital and Addition and included RET Ventures, A/O Proptech and NREP. Founded in 2016, PassiveLogic offers an autonomous building platform that provides a full-stack solution including tools to design, engineer, install, ...

Intel Corp. today unveiled a range of new security features for its forthcoming 10-nanometer Ice Lake chips that offer hardware security to provide additional protection of data. With Ice Lake, the third generation of Intel Xeon processors, Intel is doubling down on its “security first pledge” with the Intel Security Guard Extension technology deployed across ...

Technology products supplier Intcomex Corp. has suffered a data breach and about a terabyte of its user data was released on a hacking forum. First reported by Cybernews today, the leaked data included credit card details, passport numbers, license scans, personally identifiable information, payroll data, financial documents, customer details, employee information and more. Parts of the ...

Cybersecurity firm McAfee Corp. is looking to raise up to $814 million in its initial public offering, the company said today. McAfee, which was once an independent company before being acquired by Intel Corp. in 2010 for $7.68 billion, was spun off in a deal announced in September 2016 and completed in April 2017. Private investment firm ...

Armory Inc., which offers the open-source continuous delivery software platform Spinnaker as a cloud service, said today it has raised $40 million in new funding to accelerate research, customer support, sales and marketing. The Series C round was led by B Capital and included Edge Capital, Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff, Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain ...