California Governor Jerry Brown Thursday signed off on one of the strictest privacy laws in the U.S. in what could be a sign of legislative things to come in a post-European Union General Data Protection Regulations world. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which goes into effect from 2020, mirrors many of the provisions of GDPR ...

The U.K. division of ticketing giant Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. has been hacked and customer data stolen, but even worse is the revelation that it was warned of the security issue in April but ignored it. Ticketmaster UK first confessed to the hack on Wednesday, saying that it had identified malicious software on a customer support ...

Autonomous Security Operations Center platform startup JASK Inc. has raised $25 million in new funding to allow it to continue developing its platform, hire more people and expand global sales channels. The Series B round was led by Kleiner Perkins and included Battery Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, TenEleven Ventures and Vertical Venture Partners. As part of ...

Japanese messaging giant LINE Corp. is the latest to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon, announcing today that it plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange in July. Called BITBOX, the exchange will offer more than “30 highly demanded cryptocurrencies” for users with support in 15 languages. Although LINE has not disclosed a full list of cryptocurrencies ...

The EOS blockchain, the “operating system” platform for which a record $4 billion was raised by parent company Block.One in an initial coin offering in May, is in trouble with community members over an arbitration decision. The drama relating to the EOS blockchain, which is supposed to allow scalable “decentralized autonomous communities” with the support of asynchronous ...

In what is likely the largest cloud misconfiguration data exposure to date, a little-known Florida marketing firm has exposed 340 million records online to all and sundry. The exposure by Exactis, discovered by security researcher Vinny Troia, included 2 terabytes of data relating to 230 million people, nearly every U.S. citizen and resident over the age of ...

U.S. authorities have arrested 35 dark web sellers following an operation that traced bitcoin laundering activities back to sellers involved in illicit transactions. The operation was led by the U.S. Department of Justice in conjunction with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Secret Service, the Postal Inspection Service and the Drug Enforcement ...

Google LLC is pushing ahead with the roll out of its human voicelike Duplex technology despite the moral indignation it received when it was first demonstrated. The technology, for those who missed the first public demonstration at Google’s I/O developer conference in May, delivers next-generation conversational artificial intelligence to voice delivery through a service that can interact in a surprisingly ...

Facebook Inc. has formally disbanded its little-known drone development division, a year after anything was last heard about it. The program, announced back in 2014, was intended by Facebook to bring the internet to the “billions of people across the globe who don’t have access” via solar-powered drones that could remain aloft for 90 days ...

Less than a day after a new report found that the hospitality industry is now a favorite target of hackers, FastBooking SAS, a cloud e-marketing and booking solutions provider for hotels, is the latest company to be compromised. The hack, which took place on June 14, involved the theft of guests’ first and last names, ...