Facebook Inc.- owned Instagram may be slowly backing away from its IGTV video service, removing the main access button for the service from the Instagram app. Launched in June 2018, IGTV initially differentiated itself from YouTube by only offering vertical videos, a format considered awful by some because it doesn’t capture the surroundings of the subject, but it’s apparently popular ...

Strategy management startup WorkBoard Inc. today said it has raised $30 million in new funding to boost marketing efforts, partnerships and development of core technology in areas such as data visualization and machine learning. The Series C round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included GGV Capital, M12 (previously Microsoft Ventures) and Workday Ventures. As part of the deal, Andreessen Horowitz ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced a new policy in which they will now notify state and local officials of cyber intrusions that affect election infrastructure. By infrastructure, the FBI means electronic voting machines, various electronic devices used in various states to allow people to vote electronically instead of filling in a paper ...

Bitcoin has continued its strong form this month, teasing $9,000 briefly in its best January since 2012, despite an apparent easing of Middle East tensions that were previously attributed to its increasing price. Bitcoin is up 21% since the beginning of the year, and some experts now claim it could double in price by the end ...

P&N Bank, a community-owned bank serving Western Australia, has suffered a data breach with customer data stolen. The hack took place Dec. 12 during a server upgrade on an outside hosting service. The data stolen included customer names and ages, residential addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, customer numbers, account numbers and account balances. The bank ...

A new report has found that more than 600 million users installed apps from the Google Play store that are designed to make charges to a user’s account after a trial period even if they’ve uninstalled the app. Dubbed “fleeceware” by security researchers at Sophos Group plc, which reported on the Tuesday, the apps exploit users ...

Google LLC today extended its log-in authentication service to iOS, allowing iPhone and iPad users to sign into accounts using Google security keys for two-factor authentication. The service was first rolled out to Android devices in April and negates the need for either a physical security key or 2FA via SMS. The Advanced Protection Program ...

The long-running saga that followed the historic 2017 hack of credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. is nearing its end as a court in Georgia ruled Monday that the company will pay $380.5 million to resolve all outstanding claims. The upfront figure, a partial discount on the up to $700 million figure the company agreed to pay ...

Passwordless security startup Trusona Inc. said today it has raised $20 million in new funding to support ongoing technology development. The Series C round was led by Georgian Partners and included Kleiner Perkins, M12, OurCrowd, Seven Peaks Ventures and Akamai. Founded in 2015, Trusona launched out of stealth mode in 2016 with a cloud-based digital identity authentication ...

Microsoft Corp. has patched a major security flaw in Windows that was discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency, arguably making its first “Patch Tuesday” of the year one of the most exciting to date. The flaw, officially called CVE-2020-0601, affects Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server version 1803. Described as ...