The U.S. Department of Interior today grounded all of its nonemergency drones over concerns that the aircraft present a risk to national security. Though not specifically naming China as the risk, The Wall Street Journal reported that the decision stems from concerns that drones made in China or with Chinese parts could be used by the Chinese ...

Tesla Inc. stock surged nearly 12% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the electric car maker beat analysts’ predictions for its fourth-quarter earnings. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, Tesla booked revenue of $7.38 billion, up 2% over the same quarter last year. Profit declined, though, to $105 million or 56 cents a share from $140 ...

Lab testing firm Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings, better known as LabCorp, is back in the news again for all the wrong reasons: TechCrunch today reported that the company left thousands of medical documents exposed online. LabCorp was last in the news in June when 7.7 million patient records were stolen. They included patient names, dates of birth, addresses, phone ...

Consultancy firm Accenture Plc today announced a multiyear deal for Google Cloud to be its cloud partner for its INTIENT life sciences industry platform. INTIENT is a platform for biopharma firms to gain insights and collaborate with continuity and flow of information across the enterprise. The platform enables the application of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has been ordered to suspend an account holding 96 bitcoin, about $896,000, by the U.K. High Court after accusations that the owner of the account is linked to a ransomware attack targeting a firm in Canada. According to a Jan. 17 court filing, the ransomware case involved more than 1,000 computers at an unnamed Canadian ...

In a partial snub to the U.S. government, the U.K. will allow Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to participate in the country’s 5G rollout, though with some restrictions. While giving approval to Huawei, the U.K. government has designated the company a “high -risk vendor” and will exclude the company from sensitive “core” parts of 5G and gigabit-cable ...

Bitcoin spinoff Bitcoin Gold has suffered two so-called 51% attacks, but in a surprising twist its price has actually surged since then. A 51% attack is one attempted by a group of miners controlling more than 50 percent of a given cryptocurrency’s mining hash rate, a measure of how much computing power the cryptocurrency network is ...

Hackers are actively targeting a critical flaw in software from Citrix Systems Inc. first uncovered last month, and users are being warned that even if they patch now, their systems may still be compromised. Formally known as CVE-2019-19781, the flaw exposes networks using the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Gateway products to unauthorized access and hacking. ...

Social media accounts belonging to the National Football League along with 15 teams have been hijacked by notorious hacking group OurMine. The hacks primarily affect Twitter accounts but in some cases include Instagram and Facebook accounts. Hacked Twitter accounts showed messages that read “We’re back (OurMine). We are here to show people that everything is ...

Czech cybersecurity firm Avast Software s.r.o., the owner of popular free products such as AVG and Avast Antivirus, is reported to be selling web browsing data that can be linked to individual users via a subsidiary called Jumpshot. A joint investigation from PCMag and Motherboard uncovered the practice. Although Avast has previously claimed that the data ...