Microsoft Corp. has scheduled a Surface event for Oct. 2, but in a twist on last year’s event that debuted a new Surface Pro, the possible headline launch this year could be a dual-screen Surface device. The dual-screen fold tablet/laptop, code-named Surface “Centaurus” by Microsoft during its two years of development, could have a similar form ...

Australia will block any site deemed to be hosting “terrorist material,” including leading social media sites such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., under a proposal announced Sunday by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Reuters reported that Morrison (pictured, right), who somehow got invited to the G7 Leaders’s Summit in France despite Australia not being a member of the ...

The details of about 14 million customers of web hosting provider Hostinger International Ltd. have been compromised by a “security incident” that took place on Aug. 23. To its credit, Hostinger has been upfront with customers in its disclosure, writing Sunday that one of its servers had been accessed by an unauthorized third party. “This server ...

Apple Inc. today released a new security update to its iOS mobile operating system a week after it was reported that it had managed to open a vulnerability that allowed Apple devices to be jailbroken. iOS 12.4.1, available for iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later and sixth-generation iPod Touch devices, addresses what Apple ...

Facebook Inc. is developing a new messaging feature dubbed “Threads” for Instagram that supposedly promotes constant, intimate sharing between users according to an unconfirmed report from The Verge. In an age where users are sometimes deeply concerned about data sharing — vocally but not always in practice — Threads is said to include the ability to share ...

Security researchers at Sophos Group plc are warning of a new phishing scam that attempts to trick Instagram users with a fake two-factor authentication message. The messages, claiming that someone has tried to log into a user’s Instagram account, are designed to look as close as possible to official Instagram messages. “Apart from a few punctuation errors ...

A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to charges in relation to his running of an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange business as part of a plea deal. Kunal Kalra, 25, who went by the online names of “coinman” and “shecklemayne,” is said to have operated an exchange business that offered bitcoin for U.S. dollars and vice ...

Another week, another data breach in healthcare. This time, Massachusetts General Hospital had data stolen in a sector that continues to provide inadequate protection for patient data. First disclosed on Thursday, the hack involved the records of some 9,900 research patients at the hospital by an “unauthorized third-party” on two computers used by Neurology researchers at ...

Local governments in Texas continue to struggle to restore services after a coordinated ransomware attack last week, highlighting the vulnerability of government bodies to cyber attacks. The ransomware attack, which started on Friday, was initially believed to involve 23 different local governments, now revised to 22. Specific details relating to the attack have not been ...

Overstock.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Patrick M. Byrne today resigned from the company he led for 20 years after comments he made about his alleged role in assisting the “deep state” caused the e-retailer’s share price to plummet. The controversy started with an article published by investigative reporter Sara Carter Aug. 12 in which she ...