Connected internet device maker Ring LLC has been sued by a man claiming that his internet-connected camera was hacked and used to harass his children. The litigant, John Baker Orange, filed in the United States District Court Central District of California Dec. 26. He’s seeking class-action status in the legal action. In the lawsuit, Orange ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has been given approval by Egypt’s Competition Authority to acquire Middle Eastern ride-hailing startup Careem Networks FZ some nine months after the deal was announced. Careem operates in 120 cities across North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, but of the markets the company operates in, Egypt is the largest in the Middle East ...

Internet-connected device maker Wyze Labs Inc. has suffered a data breach, though the company claims there’s no evidence the data was accessed by any nefarious third parties. The data breach, first detailed by 12 Security Dec. 26, involved an unsecured Elasticsearch database with 2.4 million customer records. The database included the user names and emails of those ...

Google LLC’s YouTube has deleted thousands of bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related videos in an apparent purge but in a backflip is now claiming that the deletions were “in error.” The purge started just before Christmas and primarily targeted small independent channels. Creators claimed they received no correspondence from YouTube as to why their videos had been deleted. One ...

A newly discovered PayPal Inc. phishing scam is not only targeting login credentials but also personally identifiable information and payment card data. Discovered and publicized Dec. 20 by security researchers at ESET spol s.r.o., the phishing campaign targets users with crafted emails that claim that the PayPal account belonging to a user has experienced “unusual activity.” The ...

A group with alleged links to the Chinese government has been accused of hacking networks worldwide, but in a rare twist it’s said to be bypassing two-factor authentication in the process. The hack was detailed late last week by security researchers from Fox-IT Holding B.V. APT20, the group behind the campaign, targets web servers as the first point ...

Distributed ledger technology firm Hedera Hashgraph LLC has delayed issuing tokens to investors sold in an initial coin offering in an effort to stabilize the price of the tokens as they continue to drop in value. Hedera Hashgraph, founded in 2018, is a venture capital-backed company supported by the likes of IBM Corp. that is building a public distributed ledger ...

A flaw in the Android app for Twitter Inc. has been exploited by a security researcher to match 17 million phone numbers to user accounts in the latest privacy breach involving the microblogging service. First reported today by TechCrunch and uncovered by vulnerability researcher Ibrahim Balic, the exploit takes advantage of a function in Twitter that allows users to ...

A newly detailed phishing campaign is targeting customers of Canadian banks, but this one has been around awhile: It’s believed to be at least two years old. Detailed by security researchers at Check Point Security Technologies Ltd., which published its findings today, the phishing campaign involves highly convincing emails sent to targeted customers that use ...

A newly discovered vulnerability in Citrix Systems Inc. software platforms exposes networks using the software to potential unauthorized access and hacking. Discovered and published today by security researchers at Positive Technologies, the vulnerability relates to both the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and the Citrix Gateway. CVE-2019-19781, as it’s officially known, has been ranked a 10. That’s the highest level ...