The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has filed a lawsuit against Google LLC claiming that the search giant has breached Australian consumer law by misleading consumers about the data it collects. Claimed to be the first time a regulator anywhere in the world has sued Google over its data collection methods, the suit, filed in ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Department of Transportation over the department’s attempt to obtain the location data of Uber-owned scooters in the city. The lawsuit, filed Monday and first reported by CNET, claims that LADOT’s demand that scooter data be shared compromises privacy and security. LADOT introduced the requirement for location data ...

Facebook Inc.-owned WhatsApp today filed a lawsuit against Israeli spyware company NSO Group Technologies Ltd. claiming that the company illegally hacked users of the messaging service earlier this year. WhatsApp claims NSO Group was behind a hack in May in which accounts were compromised in a so-called zero-day attack, or one that hadn’t previously been known. The ...

Cloud recruiting platform startup Fountain today said it has raised $23 million in new funding to invest in research and development and accelerate product development. The Series B round into the company, formally known as Onboard IQ Inc., was led by DCM and included 51job, Origin Ventures, Uncork Capital and others. As part of the deal, DCM co-founder David ...

Global Italian banking and financial services company UniCredit S.p.A revealed Monday that 3 million customer records were stolen in a data breach that may have taken place as far back as 2015. The hack involved the theft of names, cities, phone numbers and email addresses of the bank’s Italian customers but did not include other personal ...

At the dawn of the World Wide Web, websites powered by early versions of Hypertext Markup Language were very basic because of the limitations of the code. In the latter half of the 1990s and into the early 2000s, an alternative appeared in the form of what is today known as Adobe Flash. Flash, for all ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has launched a new division that offers financial services for Uber drivers. Called Uber Money, the new service comes with a Visa debit card and delivers, for the first time, the ability for Uber drivers and related service providers to access funds they have earned immediately. Previously, money earned by Uber drivers ...

Bitcoin had a remarkable return to form over the weekend after declining over the last month into a bear market. The reason: China. The cryptocurrency peaked as high as $10,071.47 early Saturday, up 36% in one day to its highest level in five weeks. The jump followed a  report that Chinese President Xi Jinping (pictured) announced ...

In a targeted ransomware attack, hackers took down the computer network of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa Oct. 24, stealing data from the city and threatening to release it unless the ransom payment is made. The group behind the attack, going by the name of Shadow Kill Hackers, is demanding a payment of four ...

The United Nations and nongovernment organizations are being targeted by a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign that’s attempting to gain account credentials for Okta, Office 365 and Outlook. Detected by security firm Lookout Inc. and publicized Thursday, the phishing campaign has been live since March 2019. It’s described as mobile-aware in that it can detect mobile devices. ...