Social trading and investment marketplace eToro today launched a cryptocurrency trading service in the U.S. The new service, initially available in 32 states, will allow eToro users to trade 14 different cryptocurrencies as well as provide cryptocurrency storage wallets and trading data. At the outset, the cryptocurrencies supported are bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple XRP, ...

A lack of skilled cybersecurity professions may soon lead to a crisis in enterprise security, according to a report released today by Tripwire Inc. The finding comes in a survey of 336 information technology security technology professionals undertaken by Dimension Research in February. Some 80 percent of respondents say it’s becoming more difficult to find skilled cybersecurity professionals. Highlighting the ...

Google LLC has revealed that a patch issued to its Chrome browser March 1 addressed a zero-day exploit that was actively being exploited in the wild. A zero-day is a vulnerability, usually unknown by a software vendor, that gives hackers a high level of access thanks to a critical flaw. For example, all Apple Mac ...

A new report from Microsoft Corp. claims that Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over the past two years. Allegedly state-sponsored, that is using hackers employed by the Iranian government, the hacking campaign is said to have targeted thousands of people in more than 200 companies. They stole corporate secrets ...

Phishing attacks were up in 2018 while ransomware attack were down are two keys findings from a new report from Microsoft Corp. detailing security trends. Microsoft’s annual Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 24 analyzed data from 6.5 trillion security signals that go through the Microsoft cloud as well as gathered insights from thousands of security ...

NTT Security Corp., the security arm of Japanese telco giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. today said it will acquire application security provider WhiteHat Security Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2001 by former Yahoo information security officer Jeremiah Grossman, WhiteHat provides solutions for website security. With a cloud-based service, the company offers a vulnerability management platform along with ...

Hackers have successfully attacked hundreds of unpatched Docker hosts to run cryptomining scripts, according to a new report released Monday by security firm Imperva Inc. The new wave of attacks on Docker has come about following the disclosure of a vulnerability in February known as CVE-2019-5736, a runC flaw that allows an attacker to secure host root access in ...

Buzzwords in the tech scene are often laid on so thick it’s sometimes difficult to ascertain what a company does, and one of the most common buzzwords today is artificial intelligence. Mostly the application of a buzzword has some representation of truth, but as it turns out many companies claimed to be using AI are ...

Chronicle LLC, an Alphabet Inc. X spinoff company, today emerged from stealth mode with its first product: Backstory, a cloud security data and threat intelligence platform. Described as “Google Photos for business’ network security” by Chronicle Chief Executive Officer Stephen Gillett, Backstory is claimed to be the “first global security telemetry platform designed for a ...

The cryptocurrency industry has seen strange bedfellows over the years, and here’s a new one: Controversial “stablecoin” provider Tether is gotten into bed with the TRON Foundation to offer Tether’s USDT on the TRON blockchain. Under the deal, a new version of the Tether USDT stablecoin will be listed on the TRON blockchain as a ...