With hackers targeting hospitals and other medical service providers during the global coronavirus pandemic, the importance of cybersecurity has never been more critical. Cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has teamed with incident response company Coveware Inc. to offer free assistance to hospitals and other healthcare providers who are targeted with ransomware attacks. “Without a global pandemic, a ransomware attack ...

Major self-driving car companies have suspended their testing programs, citing coronavirus contagion fears. Alphabet Inc.-owned Waymo was the first company to suspend testing, also stopping its taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona, for vehicles that require a support driver. Notably, the company’s fully automated driverless taxi, delivery and trucking services are continuing operation, but Waymo suspended ...

NutriBullet LLC, the maker of a popular high-priced blender, have been targeted in a number of Magecart attacks, with customer data stolen at the point of sale. The attacks, attributed to MageCart Group 8, were discovered and publicized today by security researchers at RiskIQ Inc. The first attack, detected Feb. 20, involved the attackers placing skimmer code ...

Payments startup Square Inc. is set to provide banking services after getting conditional approval for a banking license by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Square was granted an “Industrial Loan Company” license, a form of de novo banking license that the FDIC provides to newly chartered banks that are bound by supervision standards. The bank, Square ...

A large amount of confidential data relating to two financial companies has been found exposed online in the latest case of a failure to secure a cloud-hosted database. The exposure was discovered by security researchers at vpnMentor and publicized Tuesday. It’s believed to be linked to MCA Wizard, an iOS and Android app developed by Advantage Capital ...

The global COVID-19 pandemic is hitting ride-hailing firms hard as both Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have been forced to suspend some services in North America and Europe. Uber has suspended its Uber Pool carpooling service in the U.S., Canada, London and Paris on coronavirus contagion concerns. “Our goal is to help flatten the curve ...

The U.S. government is in discussions with tech companies on how they could use geolocation data from users to combat the current COVID-19 global pandemic. According to The Washington Post, the discussions include Facebook Inc., Google LLC and a wide array of tech companies and health experts on how they can use location data to ...

Network security startup Axis Security has launched out of stealth mode with $17 million in funding from Cyberstarts, Alex Doll of Ten Eleven Ventures and Gili Raanan, a partner at Sequoia Capital. Fifteen-month-old Axis Security claims several unnamed Fortune 500 companies among its customers. The company offers the Axis Application Access Cloud, an “agentless”  model that’s said ...

Hacking groups are targeting hospitals and medical service providers with ransomware attacks as many struggle with the coronavirus pandemic. In the last week, a health service district in Illinois and a hospital in the Czech Republic were targeted with ransomware disrupting services including coronavirus testing. The Champaign Urbana Public Health District, which services 210,000 people ...

With millions of people worldwide being asked to work from home due to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus, scammers are targeting remote workers with phishing campaigns and malware. In one phishing campaign detailed by security researchers at Mimecast Threat Intelligence, hackers are targeting remote workers with a credential-stealing scam (below) that takes employees to a ...