Amazon.com Inc.’s annual Amazon Prime Day is attracting the interest of hackers attempting to target shoppers. The annual event, delayed earlier in the year due due to COVID-19 is being actively targeted with emails and SMS text messages that offer fake deals in an effort to trick users into downloading malware or to “phish” their Amazon ...

Microsoft Corp. today claimed to have disrupted the infamous TrickBot botnet in partnership with other companies, but there’s evidence that only part of the botnet has been taken down. TrickBot dates back to 2016 and is believed to exist on a network of more than 1 million machines. Initially used to target banking credentials with ...

German tech giant Software AG has been hit by a ransomware attack that caused the company to suspend services. The attack occurred Oct. 3 and has been attributed to Clop ransomware. As is typical in a ransomware attack in 2020, the company’s files were encrypted and those behind the attack demanded a ransom payment of about ...

The U.S. Department of Justice may attempt to force Google LLC to divest its Chrome browser under a potential antitrust lawsuit, according to a report published by Politico Saturday. Reports of an antitrust lawsuit against Google have been ongoing for months. A report Sept. 3 said it could happen the same month (it didn’t), and ...

Millions of customer records belong to Dr. Lab PathLabs Ltd., one of India’s largest medical testing firms, has been found exposed online in the latest case of a company failing to secure its cloud storage. The database, discovered by security researcher Sami Toivonen and first reported today by TechCrunch, was founded exposed to all and sundry on ...

U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr (pictured, right) today announced the release of a new cryptocurrency framework designed to police the industry at a time that alleged illegal actions are in the news with the prosecution of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX. “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework” was created by the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force to provide a comprehensive overview ...

Waymo LLC, the self-driving car division of Alphabet Inc. said today it’s opening its driverless ride-hailing service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona. The testing phase of the program in Phoenix started in 2017, followed by an expanded group of test users in 2018. Fast-forward nearly two years and Waymo now believes that the technology ...

In a clear dig at rival Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. today published a series of principles for its Windows 10 store that includes fair pricing and not restricting developers on in-app purchases. The “10 principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows” builds on ideas and the work of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group that ...

Salesforce Inc. and Okta Inc. today announced a new partnership to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The partnership calls for a new integration between the Okta Identity Cloud and Salesforce Work.com that’s intended to help organizations and communities to build trust with both employees and customers. Designed to help businesses and organizations around the world reopen safely, ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today issued a warning that state and local governments need to fortify their systems against Emotet malware attacks. Emotet, which was first identified in 2014 and was originally a banking Trojan virus that primarily spread through malicious emails, has since evolved into a form ...