Navionics srl a socio unico, a division of Garmin Ltd. that offers marine navigation services, is the latest to suffer from a data breach, exposing the records of more than 260,000 customers. The data, discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko, were left open to all and sundry on an unsecured MongoDB database and was indexed by the Shodan ...

Top Silicon Valley and Asian investors have backed a new cryptofund promising to bridge the gap between East and West to the tune of $100 million. Called Dragonfly Capital Partners, the fund was revealed today. Offering investors a single, diversified access point to cryptoassets, it’s led by Alexander Pack, who previously worked on crypto and fund ...

An audit of weapon systems currently under development by the U.S. Department of Defense has found that many are easy to hack. The finding comes via a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued today. The agency, which provides nonpartisan information to Congress, based the report on systems testings of a variety of weapons ...

Microsoft Corp. today rereleased the October Windows 10 update after fixing a bug that deleted files, as it also issued its monthly Patch Tuesday software patches. Windows 10 October 2018/1809 was pulled by Microsoft over the weekend after multiple users reported that the update resulted in the deletion of personal files such as those in Documents ...

Venture capital flowing into technology companies remained strong in the third quarter, according to a latest quarterly PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree report released early Wednesday, but where it’s invested is shifting. The number of deals in the U.S. during the third quarter dropped for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2017, coming in at 1,229 versus ...

DevOps solutions provider Perforce Software Inc. today announced it has acquired Israeli software testing company Perfecto Mobile Ltd. to beef up its mobile and web automation testing service. Although the price of the deal wasn’t disclosed, Globes reported that the deal was priced at $200 million. The same report noted that the acquisition price is down from a valuation ...

Blockchain startup Oasis Labs Inc. today announced a partnership with a number of leading venture capital firms to launch a blockchain accelerator dedicated to privacy-first computing. The Oasis Startup Hub, with backing from a16zcrypto, Accel, Binance Labs, Pantera Capital and Polychain Capital, will provider blockchain developers with guidance from investors, technical support and early access to “breakthrough technology” ...

Google LLC is shutting down the consumer version of its Facebook Inc. competitor Google+ after it was reported that the platform has been exposing user data for years. Although many expected the little-used social networking service to go out with a whimper and not a bang,  the opposite has occurred. The demise of Google+ started ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has backed Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and others in essentially denying a report published by Bloomberg Oct. 4 that claimed China had inserted tiny spying devices in various forms of technology. Bloomberg claimed in its report that Chinese intelligence had secretly implanted microscopic spy chips nearly the size of ...

Less than a year after its launch of its Amazon Go chain of checkout-free shops, Amazon.com Inc. is looking to expand the stores to 3,000 locations, including the United Kingdom. The stores, originally starting with a concept store in Amazon’s home town of Seattle, use what the company refers to as “Just Walk Out Technology.” It ...