The rumor mill is in overdrive ahead of Apple Inc.’s product event Monday at the Steve Jobs Theater at its Cupertino, California headquarters. The launch of new streaming services is a given, though hardware likely isn’t on the agenda after Apple launched new iPads and iMacs during the week. Here’s what to expect at the event, ...

Mobile workforce management startup Skedulo Holdings Inc. today said it has raised $28 million in new funding to more than double its headcount across its four offices, including adding 60 new employees to its Australian offices. The Series B round was led by M12 and includes existing investors Blackbird and Costanoa Ventures. As part of the ...

Fifteen months after launching support for bitcoin futures, Cboe Global Markets today announced that it’s dropping them when the last existing contracts expire in June. The Cboe was the first exchange to list bitcoin futures and did so with much fanfare in December 2017. The XBT contracts gave the holder the ability to buy or sell ...

Sprint Corp. customers are reporting that they can see information from other customers via their online accounts, a technical issue that’s exposing private personally identifiable information. The data exposed included first and last names, cell phone numbers and prior calls that users made. One person told TechCrunch Monday that she had seen the details of 22 ...

Norsk Hydro ASA, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminum, has had to partially cease operations after its networks were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. The Norwegian company, with operations in 50 countries, first detected the ransomware attack early morning Tuesday Central European Time, but by that point, the infection had already spread across ...

Former Mt. Gox founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles is now a free man after a court in Japan dismissed all charges against him except a minor one related to record-keeping. Mt. Gox was a bitcoin exchange that shut down in 2014 after hackers allegedly stole all the funds in the exchange, worth around ...

A new phishing campaign targeting Instagram users is using fake copyright infringement notices to steal user credentials. Detailed by security researchers at Kaspersky Lab Friday, the campaign sees Instagram users targeted with an email that pretends to be from Instagram. The emails, usually with an address coming from an official-looking URL such as theinstagram.team read ...

Lyft Inc. is starting an investor roadshow Monday in an effort to persuade investors to buy into its initial public offering. That’s according to CNBC, which reported today that Lyft will meet with investors across the United States before pricing the IPO and listing on the Nasdaq at the end of the month. Separately, Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with ...

Microsoft Corp. has released test builds of new browser extensions that offer Windows Defender Application Guard support to both Chrome and Firefox browsers. Previously available in Microsoft’s little-used Edge browser, Windows Defender Application Guard is a security tool that isolates browser sessions from the desktop in a virtual machine to prevent any malicious activity from ...

When most people think of malware, South America doesn’t come to mind. But a new study by security firm Recorded Future in conjunction with the Insikt Group has found many trojan malware controllers are located south of the U.S. border. The research identified active malware controllers for 14 malware families that were communicating with corporate ...