Credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. has agreed to pay up to $700 million in compensation in a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over its infamous 2017 hack. The settlement, which covers all lawsuits by federal and state regulators as well as a class-action case against the company, will result in Equifax paying out at least ...

A former U.S. National Security Agency contractor has been sentenced to nine years in prison as part of a plea agreement after pleading guilty to one charge of stealing a classified document in March. Harold T. Martin III was arrested in August 2016 and was found in possession of 50 terabytes of government data, including ...

Major U.S. companies that supply Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. will meet with Trump administration officials at the White House on Monday to discuss the current state of the ban on sales to the company. According to a report from Reuters today, representatives from Intel Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Google LLC and Micron Technology Inc. will meet with White ...

A hacking group apparently stole 7.5 terabytes of data from a contractor for Russia’s FSB state security agency, exposing various secret projects, including one to make traffic on the anonymity network called Tor no longer anonymous. The hack targeted an FSB contractor called SyTech. The group claiming to be behind the hack, called 0v1ruS, said ...

Bitcoin investors have shaken off concern over future cryptocurrency regulation following the Libra hearings in Washington D.C. this week, driving the price of the cryptocurrency back up in a reversal of its midweek slump. The cryptocurrency’s price surged by $1,000 in 30 minutes starting at 10:15 a.m. EDT today, then continued to climb, peaking at ...

Cybersecurity researchers in Australia have found a way to trick an AI-based antivirus engine provided by BlackBerry Cylance into accepting malware as being legitimate, a discovery that may cast doubt on the methodology used by some companies in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity. Detailed by Adi Ashkenazy and Shahar Zini from Skylight Cyber ...

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is once again being targeted by U.S. lawmakers with a new bill introduced to the Senate Thursday that would ban the company from buying or selling U.S. patents. Sponsored by Senators Marco Rubio and John Cornyn, the bill seeks to enable the federal government to block companies on the U.S. government trade ...

Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram has started removing the “like” counts in some countries in an apparent attempt to assist with mental health and bullying — but some worry that the decision could fundamentally undermine the app’s user ecosystem. Announced at Facebook’s annual developer conference in April, the removal of the like count was first tried out ...

The second episode of the new reality show “Libra goes to Washington” aired Wednesday, but there wasn’t much suspense: Facebook Inc.’s planned new cryptocurrency did not find a friendly audience. David Marcus, the head of Facebook Inc.’s Calibra division testified before the House Financial Services Committee and got a similarly negative reception to his Senate hearing ...

Updated with Trump confirmation and letter from Republicans to Trump: U.S. President Donald Trump today confirmed a Bloomberg report that he will take a look at the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project, the $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract that has been shortlisted to Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The president’s interest in the ...