In a surprising move, the U.S. banking regulator has given approval to banks to hold cryptocurrency, a decision that could shake up a market currently dominated by cryptocurrency-only firms and startups. The decision from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, an independent bureau within the Department of the Treasuring tasked with overseeing the ...

Nvidia Corp. has shown interest in acquiring Arm Holdings Ltd. from owner SoftBank Group Corp. Bloomberg reported early talks today between the graphics chipmakers and SoftBank, which acquired Arm for $31.4 billion in 2016 was reported July 13 to be exploring the possibility of selling or publicly listing the company. Although it had been expected that SoftBank would eventually ...

Two hackers allegedly working for the Chinese government have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that they were involved in global computer intrusion campaign over the last 10 years. Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 33, are accused in the 11-count indictment of hacking into computer systems of hundreds of companies, ...

Another day, another data breach involving misconfigured and unsecured cloud storage, and today’s episode involves Family Tree Maker, a genealogy service from The Software MacKeiv Co. Discovered by security researchers at WizCase, which published its findings Monday, the data was found on an open and unencrypted Elasticsearch server. The data include some 60,000 email addresses, ...

Network security solutions firm Fortinet Inc. today announced it has acquired security as a service startup OPAQ Networks Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2017, OPAQ offers networking and security services with a platform that provides a cloud-based Secure Access Service Edge designed to protect an entire distributed network including data centers, branch offices, ...

Nearly 1 million records related to students across several e-learning websites have been found exposed online in the latest cases of misconfigured cloud storage. Discovered by security researchers at Wizcase and revealed July 18, the data was found in exposed Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage buckets and on ElasticSearch servers from five companies: Square ...

Showing China’s growing presence in car-related tech ventures, Chinese ride-hailing giant and Uber Technologies Inc. rival Didi Chuxing Technology Co. is planning an initial public offering, and emerging Tesla Inc. rival Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology Co. Ltd., better known as Xpeng, has raised $500 million in new funding. Although little known in the U.S., Didi ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has quietly launched a new service that gives public health officials access to data on drivers and riders who have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19. According to Reuters today, the new service includes a website page for the exclusive use of public health departments, which can sort information based on names ...

An unexpected hero has emerged from the hack of high-profile accounts on Twitter last week: Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. said today it prevented more than 1,000 customers from sending bitcoin to accounts operated by those behind the hack. In the hack of Twitter Inc., dozens of “blue checkmark” accounts, including those of former President Barack ...

French telecommunications company Orange S.A. has been targeted by a ransomware attack with data stolen. First reported July 16 by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware attack targeted Orange’s Business Services division, which offers enterprise solutions such as remote support, virtual workstations, system security, cloud backups and cloud hosting. The ransomware attack came from the Nefilim ransomware group, ...