Security researchers from Checkmarx Ltd. revealed today they’ve uncovered disturbing vulnerabilities in tablets sold by education entertainment firm LeapFrog Enterprise Inc. that expose private data from its users: young children. The vulnerabilities were found in the LeapPad Ultimate, a tablet pitched as being “kid-tough and kid-safe right out of the box.” It comes with content including “core ...

An audit released today by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has uncovered no fewer than 34 vulnerabilities in the code for Kubernetes, the highly popular open-source container orchestration system. Of the vulnerabilities discovered, four were ranked as high-severity, 15 medium-severity, eight low-severity and seven of “informational” severity, which means no immediate danger, according to The Register. Containers are software ...

Cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFi Lending LLC has raised $18.3 million to add new products to its existing platform of interest-earning accounts for bitcoin and crypto-backed U.S. dollar loans. Founded in 2017, BlockFi operates as a nonbank lender that offers crypto-backed loans that allow investors to borrow against their cryptocurrency holdings as equity. The money the ...

Bitcoin’s return to form continued on Monday thanks to trade tensions between China and the U.S. along with the possibility of the Middle Kingdom easing its stance against cryptocurrencies. After breaking through $11,000 on Sunday, bitcoin teased $12,000 before dropping to about $11,630 at midnight EDT, up 1% over the last 24 hours. China was ...

U.K. digital bank Monzo Bank Ltd. is asking some 480,000 customers to change their personal identification numbers after it left them exposed to unauthorized staff for six months. The potential breach was caused by what the bank described as a bug that exposed the PINs in log files that could be seen by engineers working for the ...

A new report released today by IBM Corp.’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services team says destructive malware attacks have shot up threefold over the last six months as cybercriminals and nation-state actors escalate their attacks. Ransomware bundled with so-called wiper elements — that is, the ability to delete data to increase the pressure on victims ...

The details of 23 million users of online merchandise provider CafePress Inc. have been stolen and shared online in a hack that neither CafePress nor its owner Snapfish Inc. have publicly disclosed as of Monday. The hack is believed to have occurred in February and only came to light after a database of the customer ...

The price of bitcoin broke through $11,000 on Sunday as the cryptocurrency recovered after a poor showing in July. The slow return to form for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency has been weeks in the making with some hiccups along the way. After heading above $10,000 in the middle of the month, bitcoin plunged below ...

A recently detected phishing campaign targeting U.S. utility companies is believed to have its origins with a state-sponsored hacking group from China according to security researchers. First detailed Thursday by researchers at Proofpoint Inc., the LookBack campaign targets utility company employees with emails purporting to be from the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, ...

Venture capital-backed sneaker trading site StockX Inc. is the latest to be hacked, with the records of 6.8 million customers stolen. The hack was originally covered up with StockX pushing out a password reset to customers as part of a “system update” on Thursday. But the company confessed on Sunday that it had what it describes as ...