Five years after the infamous hack of extramarital affairs hookup site Ashley Madison, the 32 million affected users of the site at the time are once again being targeted in a fresh wave of extortion scams. The new “sextortion” attacks were detected and publicized Friday by Vade Secure threat analyst Damien Alexandre. They involve targets receiving emails threatening to ...

Australian transport company Toll Group has suffered a “security incident” that made customers unable to send, receive or track their shipments. The company, with operations across the globe, including mainland China, offers transportation and logistics services. Its delivery service is seemingly the hardest-hit. “As a precautionary measure, in response to a cybersecurity incident on Friday, Toll deliberately ...

Apple Inc. continues to be hard-hit by the Wuhan coronavirus, closing all of its stores in mainland China on Saturday for at least a week as the virus continues to spread. The company issued a warning about the virus in an investor call following its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, giving a wider range than usual on ...

More details have come to light on Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. latest folding phone, including an alleged hands-on video of the device. Previously reported to be called the Galaxy Fold 2, the phone is now believed to be known as the Galaxy Z Flip. That doesn’t preclude a direct successor to the original, troubled Galaxy ...

Bitcoin Thursday hit its highest level since October as the cryptocurrency gained support amid global markets skittish about the effect the spreading Wuhan coronavirus may have on global trade. Heading toward $10,000, a level that was last seen in late September, bitcoin hit a high of $9552.53 as of 8 p.m. EST before declining to ...

Indian discount airline SpiceJet Ltd. has suffered a data breach, with 1.2 million customer records accessed. In a twist on the usual data breach stories, the data was accessed by a so-called “ethical hacker” who used a brute-force method that involved inputting commonly used passwords to gain access to one of SpiceJet’s systems. Brute-forcing involves ...

Google LLC has released a new open-source multifactor authentication security key platform that allows both hobbyists and hardware vendors to build their own security keys. Called OpenSK, the project has been released on GitHub and contains Rust-based firmware that can be installed on Nordic chip dongles. Rust is a system programming language focused on safety ...

Uber Technologies Inc. and delivery firm DoorDash Inc. are reported to have discussed a possible merger last year at the behest of SoftBank Group Corp., a key investor in both companies through its Vision Fund, but the talks did not result in a deal. The Financial Times, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported today that SoftBank urged ...

More than 30 million payment card records stolen in the hack of East Coast convenience store and gas station operator Wawa Inc. in December have appeared for sale on a “dark web” marketplace. The hack included all of Wawa’s 850 locations and involved the theft of customer names, card numbers and expiration dates at both at ...

As the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread through mainland China, Apple Inc. and Tesla Inc. have issued warnings that the virus could affect sales in the first quarter — and they’re unlikely to be the last companies affected by the virus. Apple was the first to issue a warning, noting during a conference call following ...