Users of Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa-powered devices will soon be able to make donations to presidential candidates through a new feature called Alexa Political Contributions. Open to all candidates currently running, the service does require a candidate to sign up to the service with Amazon noting that the onboarding “is simple and doesn’t require any technical ...

Well Fargo & Co. is the latest U.S. financial institution to jump on the stablecoin bandwagon, announcing today that it’s piloting a blockchain-based internal settlement service that will use its own digital currency. Dubbed “Wells Fargo Digital Cash,” the stablecoin will allow the bank to complete internal book transfers of cross-border payments within its global network ...

Another day, another case of publicly exposed data, and today’s tale of data woe involves 24 million medical records across a possibly record-high 590 online medical image archives systems. Discovered by German cybersecurity firm Greenbone Networks, the data, which includes X-rays, MRIs and CT scans are open to all and sundry online without password protection. The exposure comes ...

Facebook Inc. has teamed with global glasses maker Luxottica Group SpA to build augmented reality glasses, according to a report from CNBC. Luxottica may not quite be a household brand, but the company is the world’s largest maker of glasses and owns brands that include Ray-Ban, Oakley, Prada Eyewear, Versace and Chanel. The company not only makes ...

German fintech startup Neufund today launched its equity-linked tokenized public offering platform after gaining regulatory clearance to do so from Liechtenstein. Founded in 2016, Neufund has built a blockchain-based platform that allows companies to raises funds through equity-linked token issues. Equity token raises involve a company offering tokens or coins linked to equity in the company, in contrast ...

Password manager LastPass Inc. said it has patched a vulnerability identified by a Google LLC security researcher that allowed a malicious website to steal login credentials for the last account a user had accessed using the company’s Chrome or Opera extensions. Discovered last month by Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy, the vulnerability allowed for a malicious website to trick the browser extension to ...

A database containing the details of nearly every citizen of Ecuador, including children, has been found exposed online in the latest case of a misconfigured Elasticsearch server. Discovered by security researchers at vpnMentor, the database contained data of over 20 million people, the majority being from Ecuador, a country of 16.7 million people. The database was ...

Amazon.com Inc. has strongly denied a report published by The Wall Street Journal today that claimed that the e-commerce giant had manipulated its search algorithms to boosts its own products. The report, citing unnamed people who worked on the project, said the decision to feature more prominently listings that are more profitable for the company, primarily its own ...

The price of bitcoin started to climb slightly Sunday as some analysts predicted that leading cryptocurrencies are primed for a price breakout thanks in part to the pending launch of the Bakkt LLC trading platform. Bitcoin has traded in and around $10,250 in the last month, and though it has ranged between $9,500 and $10,800, it ...

The U.S. Department of Treasury imposed sanctions against three North Korean hacking groups on Friday in the latest crackdown targeting hacking from the rouge state. The hacking groups are alleged to have stolen hundreds of millions from global financial institutions, with the money being funneled back for use by North Korea in the development of ...