Microsoft Corp. has issued 50 security fixes covering vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Flash for IE, Edge, Office, SharePoint and ChakraCore as part of its monthly “Patch Tuesday” release today, with two critical Outlook flaws leading the pack. The Outlook vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-0852) patched in the release allowed an attacker to execute malicious code remotely. Worse, should a ...

Cloud communications platform startup UJET Inc. has raised $25 million in funding in a Series B round that was led by Google LLC’s GV along with Citi Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and DCM Ventures. Founded in 2015, UJET offers a cloud-based mobile-ready platform that is claimed to deliver a “holistic” voice and chat experience across phone, web ...

The price of bitcoin has continued to rise as part of a slow bull run that started a week ago. But it’s anybody’s guess where it will go next, as so-called financial experts are predicting everything from another massive crash to huge price hikes. After dropping briefly below $6,000, bitcoin started turning up Feb. 5 ...

Microsoft Corp. today revealed plans to use blockchain technology to solve online management issues with personal data and identity management. The building of the platform is being done as part of Microsoft’s commitment to the ID2020 alliance, a global public-private partnership dedicated to aiding the 1.1 billion people around the world who lack any legal ...

Another company promising investors riches in an initial coin offering has shut down in an apparent “exit scam” after raising $4.5 million from victims through a combination of bitcoin and Ethereum. The “company,” called LoopX, was offering LPX tokens that would be used to fund an investment platform. That allegedly involved a “new kind of trading ...

Amazon.com Inc. may be doubling down on its efforts to develop chip technology in-house . Two separate reports claim it has started to develop its own artificial intelligence chip and also last year acquired a security camera company that has designed a low-energy chip that can be used in “internet of things” devices. On the AI front, ...

Updated with confirmation of attacks: In what could be the first of many attacks in the quest for Olympic hacking gold, potential state-sponsored hackers have targeted the Winter Olympic Games being held in PyeongChang, South Korea, taking down the main ticketing site for the games. The first major attack occurred Friday during the opening ceremony for the games. ...

An Italian cryptocurrency exchange that claimed to have been hacked may have actually been a con called an exit scam, according to the latest reports. The drama started Friday when Bitgrail S.r.l. claimed that they had “lost” 17 million Nano, a fairly obscure cryptocurrency previously known as “Raiblocks” worth approximately $170 million in what it claimed was “unauthorized ...

Thousand of websites, including those run by government departments in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, have been serving up cryptomining script through a popular plugin used to assist disabled visitors on websites. First reported by The Register Sunday, the infection is believed to have been caused by attackers hacking a plugin called Browsealoud, which ...

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Co. is setting its sights on Japan. Under a new deal with SoftBank Group Corp. announced Thursday, Didi will run a trial of its services in Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Tokyo and other locations with an aim of setting up shop permanently should the trial be successful. The venture, which may operate ...