Owners of Tesla Inc. vehicles found themselves locked out of their cars on Labor Day Monday after the company experienced an outage of the app customers use to open the vehicles. The outage primarily affected Model 3 owners but also owners of other Tesla vehicles who use the app to gain access to their cars. ...

Despite failing to bring its Galaxy Fold to market following design flaws, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is reported to be developing a second folding phone at a more affordable price. The claims comes from Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter as saying the new foldable phone will have a 6.7-inch inner display that ...

More than 47,000 servers manufactured by Super Micro Computer Inc. are open to hacking following the discovery of a new set of vulnerabilities that affect the management control firmware used on some the firm’s motherboards. Dubbed “USBAnywhere” by security researchers at Eclypsium Inc., the vulnerabilities, found on Supermicro’s X9, X10 and X11 boards, can allow an attacker to ...

An unnamed energy company has been defrauded of $243,000 by scammers who used artificial intelligence to mimic the voice of its chief executive officer. In an incident detailed by The Wall Street Journal, the scammers used the technology in a phone call with the CEO of a U.K. subsidiary of the unnamed German company to order ...

Craig Wright, the man who on several occasions has claimed to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is appealing a court ruling that ordered him to hand over around $5 billion in bitcoin to the estate of former business partner David Kleiman. Southern District Court of Florida magistrate Bruce Reinhart ruled in late August that Wright (pictured) should not ...

U.K. travel company Truly Travels Ltd., better known as Teletext Holidays, has exposed the records of over 500,000 customer transactions on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage instance, including some 212,000 audio records of customer calls. Uncovered by Verdict, the voice recordings are said to have taken place between April and August 2016 ...

French police have managed to take down a botnet of more than 850,000 computers that were being used to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The operation, led by a team from France’s C3N digital crime-fighting center dubbed “cybergendarmes,” targeted the botnet after being tipped off earlier this year to its existence by antivirus firm Avast Software s.r.o., the BBC reported last ...

An attack that used malicious websites to hack iPhones is now believed to have originated in China and, in a new development, appears to have targeted Android devices and Microsoft Windows PCs as well. The attack, first revealed Aug. 30 by Ian Beer, a researcher with Google LLC’s Project Zero, involved the use of malicious sites going back ...

Cisco Systems Inc. is urging customers to update affected routers quickly after the discovery and disclosure of a severe vulnerability on devices running its IOS XE operating system. CVE-2019-12643, as it’s known, ranked as a 10 out 10 for severity. The vulnerability in the Cisco REST API virtual service container for Cisco IOS XE, revealed Wednesday, ...

Hundreds of dentist offices across the U.S. have been crippled by ransomware in the latest attack to target the healthcare industry. The attacks appear to have started as early as June 24 with some reports of ransomware affecting dentists in July. But a more widespread attack targeting dentists occurred Aug. 26, according to security researcher Brian Krebs. The ...