The City of Durham, North Carolina and the County of Durham are the latest victims of a ransomware attack, with services taken offline over the weekend as officials attempted to contain and fix the infection. The attack vector is believed to have involved phishing. Local reports said the Ryuk ransomware was used in the attack. The attack was detected ...

Popular online stock trading app Robinhood Market Inc. suffered its third major crash in a week, denying users the ability to trade on a day the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its single biggest point drop in history. Robinhood suffered its first major outage on Monday, March 2, as the Nasdaq soared, followed by another outage ...

Tech stocks were hammered today as equities markets overall suffered their worst day of trading since the global financial crisis — not surprisingly, thanks to heightened coronavirus fears and a plunging world oil price following a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Key stock indices including the S&P 500 dropped 7% in the first four minutes of ...

As the spread of novel coronavirus continues to make headlines globally and events such as South by Southwest are canceled, scammers are taking advantage of the news through targeted phishing emails and scam websites. Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Inc. said Thursday they have observed a noticeable number of new websites registered with domain names ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a new warning that hackers are currently targeting users of Microsoft Officer 365 and Google G Suite in so-called business email compromise attacks. The warning, issued via a Private Industry Notification March 3, noted that the scams were costing U.S. businesses billions of dollars, according to a March 6 article ...

Nvidia Corp. has acquired SwiftStack Inc., the maker of an object data storage and management platform for data-intensive applications and workflows, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, SwiftStack offers cloud-based software to manage cloud storage for enterprises, simplifying on-premises infrastructure while enabling the scale of performance and capacity offered by the public cloud. The company started ...

“Internet of things” cybersecurity platform startup Ordr Inc. today said it has raised an additional $6 million in funding to help it implement preventative security programs for enterprise IoT and unmanaged devices. The funding was an extension of the Series B round of announced in December. Joining the round were the Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. Founded in ...

T-Mobile USA Inc. has suffered another data breach following an attack on its email vendor with customer and employee information stolen. The breach was disclosed Wednesday by T-Mobile to customers. Although the company didn’t provide hard numbers, it involves unauthorized access to certain T-Mobile employee email accounts, some of which contained account information for T-Mobile customers and employees. Data stolen includes customer ...

Most Intel Corp. chipsets released in the past five years have been found to have a vulnerability that can be exploited to obtain encrypted data and compromise data protection. Detailed today by researchers at Positive Technologies, the flaw was one of a range uncovered by Intel itself last year and initially addressed in May. However, the new research ...

J.Crew Group Inc. is the latest victim of a data breach, as customer data was stolen around April 2019. The disclosure of the hack came via the company filing a notice late last month with the California Attorney General’s Office. The hack is said to have been “recently” discovered “through routine and proactive web scanning.” ...