New year, same hacking, and this time Blue Bear Software and Focus Camera Inc. are the latest victims of Magecart attacks. Magecart is a form of attack that hijacks customer information at the point of sale on websites, stealing all the details a customer inputs into a site to purchase a given product or service. It ...

The price of bitcoin surged in trading Tuesday following reports of Iranian missile strikes in Iraq, taking the cryptocurrency to its highest point since mid-November. Bitcoin hit as high as $8,438 at 8 p.m. EST before dropping slightly, to $8,306.05, a couple of hours later. Bitcoin had been trading below $8,000 since Nov. 22, dropping ...

More details have emerged surrounding the attack on foreign currency exchange provider Travelex Dec. 31, with confirmation that it involved ransomware and that those behind the attack are demanding a ransom payment of $6 million to delete stolen data. The attack, now known to have involved the Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware, was originally described by Travelex as ...

In a complete surprise, Sony Corp. debuted an electric vehicle prototype Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Vision-S sedan is an electric vehicle built by the electronics giant in conjunction with Robert Bosch GmbH, Continental AG, Magna International Inc. and Nvidia Corp. The vehicle is claimed to deliver 544 horsepower through ...

Email security provider Mimecast Ltd. has acquired Israeli cybersecurity startup Segasec Labs Ltd. for an undisclosed price. The company had raised $5 million in venture capital from investors, including Innogy Innovation Hub. Founded in 2017, Segasec offers a solution aimed at protecting companies from phishing, pharming (an attack that redirects a website’s traffic to another), fake site, ...

Insight Partners today said it has acquired “internet of things” security startup Armis Inc. for $1.1 billion in a all-cash deal. Founded in 2015, Armis offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network. Its security platform is designed to address a threat landscape of unmanaged and IoT devices ...

Japanese short-time love hotel search engine HappyHotel has suffered a data breach in which the details of clients were accessed by unknown hackers. The breach occurred on Dec. 22, with usernames, passwords, date of birth, phone numbers and home addresses of customers all being stolen. “Love hotels” are accommodations where people take others, often prostitutes, for ...

Intel Corp. made a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late Monday afternoon with a range of announcements led by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. The AI announcement was aimed straight at the current tech battlefield of autonomous-vehicle technology. After emerging during the 2010s, it’s now potentially set to deliver in the 2020s, ...

Ring LLC has added new security features to its devices as it faces a lawsuit from users who had their internet-connected home security cameras hacked after they reused the same credentials across multiple sites. The new initiatives from the Amazon.com Inc.-owned company include the introduction of a new Control Center that allows users to manage ...

Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co. Ltd., better known as drone company DJI, today announced a new spinoff company called Livox Technology Co. Ltd. that specializes in lidar technology for autonomous driving applications. Livox debuts with two new lidar sensors that are claimed to use a groundbreaking scanning method to deliver better sensing performance at ...