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Project management startup Asana files to go public via direct listing
Project management startup Asana Inc. is finally set to go public. The company late today filed its S-1 paperwork confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, But in a sign of the times, it’s taking the direct listing route rather than a traditional initial public offering. A direct listing is a way for companies to become ...
Nintendo hacker pleads guilty to computer hacking, child porn charges
A California man who hacked into the servers of Nintendo Co. Ltd. and stole proprietary information Friday pleaded guilty to federal crimes related to hacking as well as possession of child pornography. Ryan S. Hernandez, 21, was arrested in June in relation to the crimes but only after hacking into Nintendo for a second time ...
Five years on, Ashley Madison hack victims targeted in new wave of extortion scams
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 ...
Transport company Toll Group crippled in suspected ransomware attack
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 closes all stores in mainland China on coronavirus concerns
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 ...
Video allegedly shows hands-on with Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Flip
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 hits highest level since October as markets get skittish over coronavirus
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 suffers data breach affecting 1.2M customers
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 releases new open-source two-factor authentication security key platform
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 ...
Report: Uber and DoorDash held failed merger talks last year
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 ...









