The second Tuesday of each month is best known among security professionals as Patch Tuesday, the day Microsoft Corp. releases patches for security vulnerabilities across its products. This time it’s a party, as SAP SE, Adobe Systems Inc. and Google LLC all addressed security issues today as well. Microsoft led the pack with 124 patches ...

Following in the footsteps of allies that include the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Japan, the U.K. has announced that it will ban the use of equipment from Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. across the country’s 5G network. The ban means the purchase of all Huawei 5G equipment will be prohibited in the U.K. as of ...

2020 has been an unprecedented year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with radical changes in the way tech companies do business coupled with economic disruption that arguably is unrivaled since the Great Depression — and venture capital hasn’t been completely spared either. The VC industry was disrupted in the second quarter as predicted, but the ...

Alcohol and blockchain technology may not be obvious bedfellows, but with distributed ledger technology being embraced in logistics and manufacturing, two cider companies in Spain have taken the leap into the world of blockchain product tracing. In a partnership with blockchain developer Telos, Sidra Menéndez S.L. and Llagar Castañón S.L today said they’re using Telos’ distributed ...

McAfee LLC today announced a new cloud-based security and information event management service that offers improved onboarding and related security services for security operations teams. Called the McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Cloud, the product supports detection, incident response and threat hunting activities that the company says extend the value of traditional SIEM by providing faster onboarding of ...

Cyberthreat intelligence and breach database company DataViper has been allegedly hacked and its database of breached credentials offered for sale on the shady part of the internet known as the dark web. The person behind the hack claims to have stolen more than 8,200 databases containing the information of billions of users that had been ...

Crypto investment firm Abra Inc. and its affiliate Plutus Technologies Philippines Corp. have agreed to pay $300,000 in a settlement with both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission for offering unregistered securities-based swap transactions. Abra offers an app that along with providing traditional cryptocurrency exchange services was also previously offering the ability ...

The U.S. Secret Service has announced a new task force that merges two existing task forces into one, just as Coinbase Inc. has come under criticism for licensing its blockchain analytics software to the agency. The new Cyber Fraud Task Force combines the services of the Financial Crimes Task Force and the Electronic Crimes Task ...

Updated: Semiconductor maker Analog Devices Inc. Monday said it has offered to acquire Maxim Integrated Products Inc. for $20.91 billion in stock. Maxim shareholders under the deal will receive 0.63 Analog Devices shares for each share they own. The overall price is higher than Maxim’s $17 billion valuation at the close of trading Friday. Maxim’s shares were ...

Does the “internet of things” smell? Some may argue that some valuations given to IoT companies do, but more seriously some startups are actually tackling smell as a service, more formally known as olfaction. One such company is Aryballe, which today said it has raised €7 million ($7.89 million) in new funding to help build out its ...