Railroad construction and maintenance firm Railworks Corp. has disclosed a ransomware attack that may have also resulted in the breach of personally identifiable information. The attack took place on Jan. 27 and email notifications were sent to those affected by the attack between Jan. 30 and Feb. 7. Data potentially stolen in the attack included names, addresses, ...

Updated: More tech conferences have been canceled and major tech companies have restricted employee travel as the coronavirus continues to spread across the globe. The last major conference to be postponed or canceled because of COVID-19 is the Game Developers Conference scheduled to begin in San Francisco on March 16. Questions around whether the event would go ahead ...

A former Microsoft Corp. engineer has been found guilty of stealing $10 million in digital currency from the company. Ukrainian national Volodymyr Kvashuk, a resident of Renton, Washington, was convicted on five separate counts of wire fraud, six counts of money laundering and seven other charges in relation to his theft of funds. Kvashuk worked ...

Ford Motor Co.-owned electric scooter-sharing company Spin is expanding internationally with plans to launch in Europe in the next year. The company will initially launch its first international fleet in Cologne, Germany, in the northern spring with other German cities to follow. Spin is also applying for an e-scooter share permit in France and will ...

DocuSign Inc. today announced it will acquire artificial intelligence-powered contract analytics company Seal Software Ltd. for $188 million in an all-cash deal. Founded in 2010, Seal develops contract discovery and contract management software solutions. Using user-driven machine learning and natural language processing, the company’s software allows users to find contracts of any type across their ...

A new version of the Cerberus banking malware has been found with a feature that allows it to steal Google Authenticator two-factor authentication codes, a serious security threat for users. Google Authenticator is a software-based authenticator that offers 2FA keys to access accounts. How many companies use the service is not known, but it is popular particularly with ...

No-code application development startup Unqork Inc. said today it has raised $51 million in additional funding to further build out its application platform. The funding is an extension of its Series B round announced in November and included Goldman Sachs, Aquiline Technology Growth and World Innovation Lab. CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., led the ...

Ripple Labs Inc. is being sued in a class-action lawsuit by investors who lost money investing in the company’s XRP cryptocurrency. A judge in San Francisco today ruled that the lawsuit, filed last year, could proceed based on federal law while dismissing some claims under California state law, Coindesk reported. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit claim that they lost money after ...

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI Inc. has suffered a data breach, and the company’s advising customers that an intruder “gained unauthorized access” to its list of customers. First reported today by The Daily Beast, the details of how the data breach took place were not disclosed. Clearview AI only said that the data included “the number ...

Microsoft Corp. has become the latest tech company to revise earnings guidance because of the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, saying Wednesday its third-quarter results would come in lower than expected because of supply chain issues. In a statement, Microsoft said that though its supply change was returning to normal operation in mainland China, it ...