The hacking of Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018 is now being attributed to a Saudi prince, according to sources quoted by The Guardian. The report claims that Bezos’ phone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message sent from the personal account of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The message, sent in May ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. today disclosed a data breach that involved the theft of highly sensitive data, including correspondence and information on government agencies and business partners. Although the Mitsubishi name may be best known in the West for its cars, Mitsubishi Electric is a separate division of the Mitsubishi Group of Companies that manufactures consumer ...

Password manager LastPass Inc. has suffered an outage that kept some users from accessing their accounts and hence their passwords. Reports of LastPass users being unable to access their account first emerged over the weekend on social media. Exactly what was involved with the outage is unknown, and it didn’t helped that LastPass initially denied there was an ...

Robotics technology startup Soft Robotics Inc. said today it has raised $23 million in new funding to further build out its growth strategy along with further technological development. The Series B round was co-led by Calibrate Ventures and Material Impact and included FANUC Corp., Honeywell, Hyperplane, Scale, Tekfen Ventures and Yamaha. Founded in 2013, Soft Robotics ...

Amazon.com Inc. is reported to be developing point of sale terminals that would accept a scan of a user’s hand to make a payment, according to The Wall Street Journal. The POS terminals would be placed in brick-and-mortar stores and would negate the need for customers to present a physical card to make a payment. Amazon is ...

A new vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer is being exploited in the wild, but though Microsoft Corp. is promising a fix, it may be weeks away. The vulnerability was disclosed by Microsoft Friday and was thought serious enough that it gained the attention of the U.S. Department Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency as well. The ...

Facebook Inc.- owned Instagram may be slowly backing away from its IGTV video service, removing the main access button for the service from the Instagram app. Launched in June 2018, IGTV initially differentiated itself from YouTube by only offering vertical videos, a format considered awful by some because it doesn’t capture the surroundings of the subject, but it’s apparently popular ...

Strategy management startup WorkBoard Inc. today said it has raised $30 million in new funding to boost marketing efforts, partnerships and development of core technology in areas such as data visualization and machine learning. The Series C round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included GGV Capital, M12 (previously Microsoft Ventures) and Workday Ventures. As part of the deal, Andreessen Horowitz ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced a new policy in which they will now notify state and local officials of cyber intrusions that affect election infrastructure. By infrastructure, the FBI means electronic voting machines, various electronic devices used in various states to allow people to vote electronically instead of filling in a paper ...

Bitcoin has continued its strong form this month, teasing $9,000 briefly in its best January since 2012, despite an apparent easing of Middle East tensions that were previously attributed to its increasing price. Bitcoin is up 21% since the beginning of the year, and some experts now claim it could double in price by the end ...