A week after launching, Disney+, the online subscription streaming service from the Walt Disney Company has been hacked and thousands of users found their account details compromised. The compromised accounts are being sold for between $3 and $11 each on the dark web, ZDNet reported Saturday, but the how they were compromised remains officially unknown. Disney+ users started ...

Apple Inc. today announced a press event for Dec. 2 in New York City “honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019” at which it could reveal a new product. Or not. The best guess at this stage — and guessing is where the tech press is at as the announcement was completely unexpected — is that ...

Google LLC’s acquisition of smart watch maker Fitbit Inc. for $2.1 billion Nov. 1 has not been received well by all FitBit fans, as some claim to be ditching their devices over data privacy concerns. For a story published today, CNBC interviewed several Fitbit users who are claiming to have abandoned their Fitbit devices in favor ...

Updated: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s current license extension to access U.S. technology is set to expire Monday amid rumors previously circulating that it would be granted another 90-day extension — but in a surprise twist, a new report claims the extension will be for only two weeks. Reuters, quoting two sources familiar with the matter ...

Microsoft Corp. is killing off its standalone Cortana smart assistant apps for Android and iOS four years after their launch, but support may remain in the U.S. at least for some time longer. The announcement was made in a Nov. 14 Microsoft support notice that gives Jan. 31 next year as the end of support for ...

Cybersecurity firm Venafi Inc. is warning about an explosion in scam sites using lookalike domains to target shoppers in the lead-up to this year’s holiday shopping season. Security researchers at the firm said Tuesday they found more than 100,000 lookalike domains, sites that use a domain name very similar to legitimate sites, in an attempt to ...

The extraordinarily long-running saga over Hewlett-Packard Co.’s acquisition of Autonomy Corp. PLC for $10.3 billion in 2011 has taken a new twist as U.S. authorities reportedly are preparing an extradition order for Autonomy founder and former Chief Executive Officer Michael Lynch. Lynch, a U.K. citizen, was charged a year ago with wire fraud and conspiracy in ...

Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram today announced that it’s expanding its testing of removing public “like” counts globally after launching a trial in select countries earlier this year. The idea behind removing like counts, announced at Facebook’s annual developer conference in April, is ostensibly to assist with mental health and bullying. Removing like counts, Instagram argues, removes pressure on some ...

Password manager software provider 1Password has $200 million in new funding today to invest in product and go-to-market programs to expand its enterprise presence globally. The Series A round, the first time the company formally known as AgileBits Inc. has taken outside funding in its 14-year history, was led by Accel. It included Slack Fund, WndrCo, ...

Open-source hosting and repository service GitHub Inc., acquired by Microsoft Corp. for $7.5 billion in October 2018, today announced a series of new security products at its annual GitHub Universe event in San Francisco. Leading the announcements is GitHub Security Lab, a new service that brings together security researchers, maintainers, and companies across the industry who share a ...