ASP.NET hosting provider SmarterASP.NET was struck with ransomware on Saturday, continuing to affect customer sites into today. The company, with more than 440,000 customers, didn’t provide many details as to the form of the attack. But it said in an announcement to customers that “your hosting account was under attack and hackers have encrypted all your ...

Cryptocurrency startup Bakkt LLC, founded by New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc. today entered the bitcoin institutional custody business after obtaining approval from the New York Department of Financial Services. The service, an extension of the company’s Bakkt Warehouse, offers bitcoin custodial services to institutional investors. A custodial service involves an entity holding a client’s property, ...

Fresh from banning all political advertising Oct. 30, Twitter Inc.’s latest cause célèbre is deepfakes — but the microblogging platform’s new draft policy does not go far enough, according to some. Asking for feedback, Twitter’s draft policy on deepfakes — in its words, “synthetic and manipulated” media — is not proposing to ban all such ...

Apple Inc. has pushed back its long-rumored augmented reality headset to 2022 with a pair of smart glasses to follow in 2023, according to a new report. The Information, quoting people familiar with the matter, said Apple executives shared the company’s product roadmap for the devices at an internal presentation to employees in October. Apple ...

Remote IT management solutions firm ConnectWise LLC is warning customers that hackers are targeting its software to install ransomware. Florida-based ConnectWise, acquired by Thomas Bravo for $1.5 billion in February, provides collaboration and management solutions to firms such as Liberty Technology Inc. The company’s Automate remote monitoring and management product is the specific target of those behind ...

China’s two largest mobile payment providers, Alipay and WeChat Pay, have announced support for western cards, opening up both services to visitors to the Middle Kingdom in a possible sign of further global expansion. In China, mobile payments have become ubiquitous with AliPay and WeChat Pay, respectively holding a 54% and 39% share of the market ...

Boardriders Inc., the owner of iconic surfing brands Billabong and Quicksilver, has been targeted in a cyberattack in what is likely the first of many in the lead-up to the holiday shopping season. The company was targeted two weeks ago by unknown hackers with malware that crippled its international operations, information technology systems, communications, and ...

Google LLC’s cybersecurity division Chronicle is imploding amid staff departures and uncertainty over its future, according to a report published today by Motherboard. Chronicle was announced as an Alphabet Inc. moonshot spinoff in January 2018, finally launching Backstory, its first custom in-house built product, in March. Chronicle launched with a promise that it was aiming to simplify the ...

An expert appointed in the wake of the $245 million settlement between Uber Technologies Inc. and Waymo LLC over the use of intellectual property has found that Uber is once again using Waymo’s IP without licensing. The discovery was disclosed by Uber in its 10-Q regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Uber says ...

Microsoft Corp.’s mixed-reality HoloLens 2 headset is now generally available to the public, with preorders shipped to customers in select markets. The new headset, announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February includes a complete redesign that not only embraces new technology but is also more comfortable to wear and easier to use. Hololens ...