A Taiwanese woman has been arrested after illegally attempting to enter the Mar-a-Lago Resort owned by U.S. President Donald Trump with a USB stick infected by malware. Some reports suggested that the woman, Yujing Zhang, was simply “Chinese,” but she was caught with two passports identifying her as from the Republic of China, better known in the ...

The records of about 1.3 million students and faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology have been stolen in the latest hack of an educational institution. The data accessed and stolen included the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and birthdates of current and former faculty, students, staff and student applicants. According to a press release Tuesday ...

Arizona Beverages USA LLC, a large U.S. maker of iced tea, suffered downtime in February from a ransomware attack. The attack, that involved the use of a form of the IEncrypt ransomware, is said to have hit the company in late March and resulted in more than 200 servers and networked computers displaying the same ...

Application security management startup Sqreen SAS early today said has raised $14 million in new funding, its first major round since it was founded in 2015. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners and Y Combinator and included previous investors Alven Capital and Point Nine. Greylock partner Sarah Guo is joining the company’s board. Co-founded ...

Canadian police have seized luxury vehicles and frozen bank accounts linked to blockchain services firm Vanbex Group Inc. over its involvement in an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering. Vanbex, which has been around since 2013 and offers various blockchain-related services, is in strife over its offering of Etherparty tokens, also known as FUEL tokens, in ...

Earl Enterprises Inc., the company behind Planet Hollywood and other restaurant chains, has admitted that customer data, including credit card details, has been stolen from its point of sales network. Detailed first by KrebsOnSecurity Friday, the hack was discovered after a database with credit and debit card details belonging to the company’s customers was found in ...

The wheels have fallen off Lyft Inc.’s initial public offering as its share price plunged Monday, its second day of trading after going public on Friday. After initially popping 8.7% on debut to close Friday at $78.29, shares dropped 11% to close today at $69.01, $2.99 below its IPO price of $72 per share. As ...

Slack Technologies Inc. is bypassing a traditional initial public offering and will instead offer a direct listing in either June or July, according to an unconfirmed report published Monday. The Wall Street Journal said Slack will make the direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, the second large tech firm to take the route. Spotify ...

Bitcoin has surged to its highest level this year in what some perhaps prematurely are arguing is a return to form for the cryptocurrency after a horrible 2018. The price of bitcoin was trading at $4,116.65 as of 11:20 p.m. EDT, a higher level than its previous yearly high Feb. 28 and prior to that, ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has announced a new data breach involving the theft of customer details from its dealerships in Japan, its second data breach in five weeks. The new breach is believed to affect 3.1 million customers and involved the theft of data including customer names, addresses, birthdates, government identification numbers and employment information, but ...