Another day, another misconfigured cloud instance exposing data, and the latest comes from AavGo, a cloud-based software provider for the hotel industry. The latest case involves a misconfigured Elasticsearch database revealed today by security researcher Daniel Brown. The database in question, now offline, included hotel guest information, including booking and personally identifiable information, internal hotel memos, admin login details, ...

Alphabet Inc.’s drone subsidiary Wing Aviation LLC has unveiled a new app designed to help manage air traffic control for drones. Called OpenSky, the app, available for both iOS and Android, has first launched in Australia where it has gained government approval for air traffic compliance. The app helps drone operators comply with aviation rules ...

U.S. telecommunications company Sprint Corp. has been hacked with an unknown number of accounts compromised, but in a twist, the company is blaming Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for the data breach. Affected customers were informed of the hack via email today, weeks after the hack was detected June 22. Data stolen in the hack included phone number, ...

Venture capital funding in the U.S. in on track to hit a potential new record high in 2019 thanks to a rising number of megarounds. That’s according to data from the latest quarterly PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree Report released early Tuesday, which found increasing inflows of capital into startups. For the first half of the year, ...

MyDashWallet, a popular wallet service for users of the Dash cryptocurrency, was compromised and user funds stolen for a period of two months. Dash, currently the 15th most popular cryptocurrency by market capitalization, operates as a decentralized autonomous organization run by a subset of users. A fork from the bitcoin protocol, the cryptocurrency has found a ...

A plane belonging to JetBlue Airways Corp. was evacuated on the tarmac at Newark Airport Saturday after someone airdropped an image of a suicide vest to other Apple Inc. device users on the plane. AirDrop, introduced into both iOS and OS X (now macOS) in 2011, is a feature that enables the transfer of files ...

Large technology companies would be banned from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies under a proposed bill targeting Facebook Inc.’s Libra cryptocurrency. Reuters reports that the bill, the “Keep Big Tech Out of Finance Act” is being circulated for discussion by Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee. The timing is not ...

The price of bitcoin plunged in trading over the weekend on news that China has launched a new crackdown on bitcoin mining operations. Bitcoin dropped below $10,000, to $9,922.61, at 10:20 p.m. EDT before slightly recovering to $10,256.56. as of 11:30 p.m. The drop below $10,000 is significant because it means bitcoin has dropped to its ...

In a scene straight out of a zombie television series, the TrickBot malware has risen from the dead with a new attack the may have targeted as many as 250 million email accounts, including those belonging to U.S. government employees. Season four of TrickBot, as described Friday by researchers at cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct Ltd., is back in the ...

Despite a partial reprieve from a ban imposed by Trump administration in the midst of the U.S.-China trade war, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is set to lay off a substantial number of its U.S. employees, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal Sunday. The layoffs, which the Chinese company has not confirmed, are said to affect primarily ...