Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co. Ltd., better known as drone company DJI, today announced a new spinoff company called Livox Technology Co. Ltd. that specializes in lidar technology for autonomous driving applications. Livox debuts with two new lidar sensors that are claimed to use a groundbreaking scanning method to deliver better sensing performance at ...

Hushmesh Inc., a public benefit corporation that is building an authentication trust network “Mesh” aimed at tackling identity fraud and data breaches, is demonstrating its new product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The Hushmesh Mesh is designed to enable digital interactions between people and organizations without targeting a specific application ...

A hacking group that claims to be working for the Iranian government today hacked a U.S. government website in what may be the first strike in a new cyberwar between the two countries. The hack, which targeted the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program, was claimed by those behind it to be a revenge attack for a ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has scheduled its next Galaxy Unpacked event for Feb. 11 in San Francisco. The annual event usually marks the announcement of the latest in Samsung’s flagship Galaxy phones, with the S11 initially expected to be launched at the event. But the new phones are actually reported to be called the S20, ...

A U.S. Coast Guard base was crippled in a ransomware attack late December that interrupted cameras, door access control systems and critical monitoring systems. The attack against an unnamed base, formally a Maritime Transportation Security Act regulated facility involved the Ryuk ransomware and is believed to have entered the network of the base via a ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, owned by Circle Internet Financial Ltd. has reset some customer passwords after suffering an alleged data leak that actually turned out not to be. The so-called data leak first appeared on Twitter with the information claimed to be related to Poloniex accounts including login credentials. In an email to affected customers, the company ...

The U.S. Army today banned popular social media app TikTok from mobile devices due to security concerns about the app’s link to China, following in the footsteps of the U.S. Navy that implemented an identical ban last month. The ban applies to government-issued phones with solders first being advised to uninstall the app in mid-December. The ban ...

Foreign currency exchange provider Travelex was forced to suspend some services today after the company was struck by malware Dec. 31. The details of the attack are not clear. The company described it only as a “software virus” that has “compromised some of its services.” The attack primarily affected Travelex services in the U.K. with ...

Uber Technologies Inc., Postmates Inc. and two drivers have filed a lawsuit against the State of California against a law set to go into effect Jan. 1 that limits how they can hire gig-economy and freelance contractors. Assembly Bill 5, signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in September, forces companies to classify gig-economy and freelance contractors as ...

Microsoft Corp. has successfully seized 50 domain names being used by a suspected North Korean hacking group as part of a broader campaign against cybercrime. The hacking group, dubbed “Thallium,” is alleged to have been using the domains to conduct its operations. Those operations, revealed today, are said to include the targeting of victims to ...