Security researchers have uncovered a new attempted hack using Triton malware, which targets industrial equipment in an effort to cause physical damage to its targets. Triton was first detected in 2017 when it was used to target the operations of a critical-infrastructure organization in the Middle East. A later report, which attributed Triton to Russia, noted ...

New research from Symantec Corp. has found that two out of every three hotel websites leak guest booking details to third-party sites. The research, which looked at more than 1,500 hotel websites in 54 countries covering a full range of hotel types found that the hotel websites leaking data in multiple ways, including via third-party ...

Google LLC today announced a wide range of new cloud security services aimed at delivering increased trust in Google Cloud. The new services, introduced at Google’s annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, are said to deliver increased visibility into cloud environments by allowing users to detect threats, speed response and remediation, mitigate data exfiltration ...

A Chinese government state agency has proposed that bitcoin mining be banned in the Middle Kingdom, a move that if approved may seriously impact the cryptocurrency. The proposal comes from China’s National Development and Reform Commission, which published a revised list Monday of industries it wants to encourage, restrict or eliminate. China, ostensibly capitalist, is still a ...

Yahoo, currently a division of Verizon Communications Inc., may be close to putting to bed its long-running saga over the biggest hack of all time via a revised $117.5 million data breach settlement. The class-action settlement was disclosed publicly on Tuesday and was reported to address criticisms from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who had previously ...

Uber Technologies Inc.’s long-awaited initial public offering is now slated for May as an unconfirmed report suggested that the ride-hailing giant will try to sell $10 billion in stock. Reuters, quoting people familiar with the matter, said the company will float at a valuation of between $90 billion and $100 billion, making it one of ...

Videoconferencing firm Zoom Video Communications Inc. has priced its shares for its initial public offering next week on the Nasdaq exchange. The company, which filed to go public in March, today priced its shares at between $28 and $32 each, which would raise $348.1 million at the high end from the sale of 10.9 million ...

Millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency is believed to have been stolen as part of a distributed-denial-of-service attack targeting servers used by popular bitcoin wallet service Electrum. The attack, a new version of an attack targeting Electrum in December, has the ultimate aim of tricking users into downloading a malicious version of the Electrum wallet that ...

Cybersecurity risk management startup RiskLens Inc. today said it has raised $20 million in new funding to fuel expansion across sales, marketing, engineering and professional services departments. The Series B round was led by Paladin Capital Group and included Dell Technologies Capital, Osage Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital and MassMutual Ventures. Founded in 2011, RiskLens offers cyber risk management ...

Sonos Inc. today joined with famed Swedish flat-pack furniture maker Ikea to debut two new WiFi-connected speakers in the forms of a lamp and a bookshelf. The Ikea Symfonisk collection speakers debuted at an Italian design show on Monday and are being pitched as integrating technology with home furnishing products so as to “improve life ...