Craig Wright, the man who on several occasions has claimed to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is appealing a court ruling that ordered him to hand over around $5 billion in bitcoin to the estate of former business partner David Kleiman. Southern District Court of Florida magistrate Bruce Reinhart ruled in late August that Wright (pictured) should not ...

U.K. travel company Truly Travels Ltd., better known as Teletext Holidays, has exposed the records of over 500,000 customer transactions on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage instance, including some 212,000 audio records of customer calls. Uncovered by Verdict, the voice recordings are said to have taken place between April and August 2016 ...

French police have managed to take down a botnet of more than 850,000 computers that were being used to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The operation, led by a team from France’s C3N digital crime-fighting center dubbed “cybergendarmes,” targeted the botnet after being tipped off earlier this year to its existence by antivirus firm Avast Software s.r.o., the BBC reported last ...

An attack that used malicious websites to hack iPhones is now believed to have originated in China and, in a new development, appears to have targeted Android devices and Microsoft Windows PCs as well. The attack, first revealed Aug. 30 by Ian Beer, a researcher with Google LLC’s Project Zero, involved the use of malicious sites going back ...

Cisco Systems Inc. is urging customers to update affected routers quickly after the discovery and disclosure of a severe vulnerability on devices running its IOS XE operating system. CVE-2019-12643, as it’s known, ranked as a 10 out 10 for severity. The vulnerability in the Cisco REST API virtual service container for Cisco IOS XE, revealed Wednesday, ...

Hundreds of dentist offices across the U.S. have been crippled by ransomware in the latest attack to target the healthcare industry. The attacks appear to have started as early as June 24 with some reports of ransomware affecting dentists in July. But a more widespread attack targeting dentists occurred Aug. 26, according to security researcher Brian Krebs. The ...

Paige A. Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the theft of more than 100 million customer records from Capital One Financial Corp., has been indicted on additional charges for hacking more than 30 companies. Thompson was first said to have been involved in the hacking of other companies Aug. 14 when the U.S. Department of Justice said it had found evidence of ...

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, today rolled out a new developer platform aimed at fostering blockchain innovation, particularly across the company’s existing platforms. Called Binance X, the initiative includes a hub where developers receive educational material and support for Binance solutions such as the Binance Chain, the company’s application programming interface, software ...

Atlassian Corp. Plc Wednesday warned customers of its popular Confluence collaboration software program to urgently update their installations following the discovery of a critical vulnerability that can allow an attacker to gain access and steal data. The security advisory affects all versions of Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center from 6.1.0 before 6.6.16, 6.7.0 before ...

Despite receiving another 90-day reprieve from U.S. technology sanctions, the latest smartphone releases from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. will not included licensed versions of Google LLC’s Android operating system. Reuters quotes Google executives as saying that the 90-day reprieve does not extend to new devices and hence Huawei “may not be able to offer Google’s official Android operating ...