Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro Inc. today warned users of popular free virtual private network provider HolaVPN to stop using the service because it presents a range of highly unacceptable security risks. Founded in 2007, HolaVPN pitches itself as a “community” peer-to-peer VPN service in which its users act as exit points for other users. It’s difficult ...

Controversial stablecoin Tether may be partially in the clear after bank statements obtained by Bloomberg and published today show that the company did hold adequate U.S. dollar reserves against its value for a critical period in 2017 and early 2018. Tether, which is owned by cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, operates as a stablecoin. That’s a cryptocurrency that ...

Self-driving vehicles from Uber Technologies Inc. have been given permission to return to Pennsylvania roads nine months after one of the company’s cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona. The accident, in March, which was found to be due to an issue with the vehicle’s self-driving software, resulted in Uber suspending testing across its four test ...

Former Uber Technologies Inc. chief engineer Anthony Levandowski is back in the autonomous vehicle market with a new startup that is building technology for self-driving trucks. Called Pronto.ai, the company has designed a camera-based advanced driver assist system called Co-Pilot aimed at the long-haul trucking industry. According to The Guardian, Co-Pilot offers lane keeping, cruise control ...

Bitcoin has hit its highest price since Dec. 7 in what some are suggesting is a “Santa Claus rally” in the lead up to Christmas. The hope for a seasonal bounce for bitcoin was proposed by some in late November but instead, until today, the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has continued to decline. ...

More printers have been targeted and the Wall Street Journal hacked in the latest attempt by supporters to gain more followers for YouTuber star PewDiePie in his battle against Bollywood music channel T-Series. The first round of printer attacks occurred early this month, with about 50,000 printers worldwide being made to print out flyers telling people to ...

A report from April that was published for the first time by the U.S. Department of Defense last week has found that cybersecurity at ballistic missile installations varied from lax to outright bad. The report, first detailed by ZDNet today, said the DoD Inspector General audited five separate locations that are part of the Ballistic Missile Defense ...

Twitter Inc. has fixed a strange vulnerability on a support forum that allowed hackers to obtain the country code of accounts, which had an associated phone number as well as information on whether the account was locked. The vulnerability was discovered by Twitter on Nov. 15, when the company noticed unusual activity involving the affected ...

Vine co-founder and HQ Trivia Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Colin Kroll has been found dead of a suspected drug overdose at the age of 34. According to TMZ, Kroll was found dead surrounded by “drug paraphernalia.” Drugs found at the scene included cocaine and heroin. Kroll, born in Rye, N.Y. in 1984, first came to ...

A spam campaign with a difference is causing widespread alarm across the western world with a threat to detonate a bomb if the recipient doesn’t make a bitcoin payment. The campaign involves a number of messages in English with a common theme: that the sender has used someone to plant a bomb in the recipient’s ...