The chief executive of a Vietnamese cryptocurrency mining startup that managed to raise $35 million from investors is reported to have disappeared with all of the funds raised. Le Minh Tam, the founder and CEO of Sky Mining disappeared on July 26, according to VN Express. The company’s office in Phu Nhuan District in Ho Chi Mihn ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Tuesday said it plans to create a new risk management center dubbed a “cyber hub” that’s intended to protect critical infrastructure from crippling cyberattacks. The National Risk Management Center is tasked with bolstering coordination between the federal government and private-sector companies that own and operate critical assets and to ...

Apple Inc. may still be delivering in terms of record financial results, but its glory days of global smartphone market share are well behind it. Two reports Tuesday showed China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. surpassing Apple as the world’s second-largest smartphone provider behind South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The numbers come from IDC Research ...

DocuSign Inc. today made its first acquisition after its initial public offering: Chicago-based cloud contract management firm SpringCM for $220 million. Founded in 2005, SpringCM offers a document management and workflow platform that facilitates contract lifecycle management, which is the management of a contract from initiation through award, compliance and renewal. SpringCM’s platform is said to reduce the ...

Real estate investment technology startup Skyline AI Ltd. today said it has raised $18 million in new funding to expand platform integration to include additional asset classes and further cooperation with the leading commercial real estate investment firms in the U.S. The Series A round was led by Sequoia Capital and TLV Partners with participation from JLL Spark, NYCA ...

Nearly a year after the notorious hack of Equifax Inc. saw the theft of 146.6 million customer records, a new report has found that there’s a big gap between what consumers want in data protection and what businesses are providing. The findings come today from CA Technologies Inc. and Frost and Sullivan’s The Global State of Online Digital ...

Security researchers at Cyberbit Ltd. have uncovered a new way that hackers can hijack Windows installations using a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Component Object Model. The Microsoft COM is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact with each other. They’re the foundation technology for Microsoft’s OLE that allows embedding ...

The Pentagon has created a “Do Not Buy” list of primarily Chinese and Russian software makers the U.S. Department of Defense and its contractors shouldn’t buy software from due to security concerns. First reported by Defense One, the list has been compiled with the assistance of the Aerospace Industries Association, the National Defense Industrial Association ...

IBM Corp. said today it has teamed with foreign exchange services provider CLS Group Inc. and a number of banks to unveil a new proof-of-concept blockchain platform for the financial services industry. Called LedgerConnect, the blockchain platform has been designed for financial services providers, including banks, financial technology companies and software firms, to deploy, share ...

Chinese bitcoin hardware maker and miner Bitmain Technologies Inc. is looking to go public in either Hong Kong or the U.S., according to an unconfirmed report published Monday. Forbes claimed that the company is looking to go public on a $14 billion valuation, up from a valuation of $12 billion as of its last round in September, ...