A fitness tracking app popular with members of the military could be a security risk from tracking data released by the company that highlights bases, including clandestine bases in the Middle East. The app, called Strava, was launched in 2011 and uses GPS data to track user activity such as running or cycling. It allows users to ...

The debate over the future of cryptocurrencies continued Thursday with a group meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, decrying a bubble. Yet at the same time, millennial-focused stock market app Robinhood announced that it would add no-free trading support for cryptocurrency trading in the near future. A Davos session called “The Crypto-Asset Bubble” featured a ...

A critical vulnerability in a common open-source framework used in applications has flown under the radar, but it may present a serious risk, according to security researchers. The critical vulnerability lies in Electron, an open source node.js, V8 and Chromium framework. It gives hackers access to any software using the framework via a remote code execution flaw, ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Cylus has raised a $4.7 million seed round to develop its platform for providing cybersecurity services to railway and metro systems. The funding came from Magma Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures, SBI Group and Zohar Zisapel. Founded in 2017 by veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence Corps’ elite technological intelligence and security units, Cylus is ...

Apple Inc. appears to be revving up its efforts to develop self-driving car technology. According to a regulatory filing with the California Department of Motor Vehicles reported by Bloomberg today, the company is expanding its test fleet to 27 vehicles. The iPhone maker was long rumored to be developing its own car, not just self-driving ...

In a surprising finding, a study in the United Kingdom has found that hacking is a more popular pastime among teens than smoking or having sex. The numbers come from the University College London, which surveyed 11,000 14-year-olds in the U.K. as part of the Millennium Cohort Study that asked them information about what they did in their ...

Hundreds of blacklisted bitcoin apps have been discovered in major app stores as scammers continue to target cryptocurrency users, according to a new report today. The finding comes from RiskIQ Inc., which analyzed 18,408 apps across 20 app stores and discovered 661 apps blacklisted by official cybersecurity vendors in stores, including Google LLC’s Play and Apple Inc.’s ...

Enterprise drone startup PrecisionHawk Inc. today said it has raised $75 million in a late-stage round that it claimed makes it the world’s most well-capitalized commercial drone maker. Including the new Series D round, PrecisionHawk has now raised $102 million in total. It plans to use the money to hire more people, focus on product innovation ...

Google parent Alphabet Inc. has spun off its latest “moonshot” company from its X Labs in the form of Chronicle Inc., a company that uses machine learning to assist in detecting cybersecurity intrusions. Unheard of until today — unlike previous Alphabet X alumni such as former Google Car project Waymo Inc. — Chronicle aims to simplify ...

A malicious new form of malware targeting universities, government organizations and private companies has been detected in what could potentially be the first major state-sponsored attack of 2018. Called “Lebal” by security researchers at Comodo Group Inc. in an announcement today, the malware has so far been detected in five universities, 23 private companies and several ...