The price of bitcoin plunged below $7,000 Thursday as reports discussed the cryptocurrency passing a so-called “Death Cross,” a statistical estimate of longer-term trends. Bitcoin has been mostly stagnant in March as many investors sat on it waiting to see where it may go. Despite fanboys such as Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey ...

Higher-education institutions are the new battleground for cryptomining-related hacking, according to a newly published report from security firm Vectra Networks Inc. A full 60 percent of all cryptomining software detections occurred in college and university networks, followed well behind by entertainment and leisure on 6 percent, financial services and technology at 3 percent each and healthcare ...

Sports apparel maker Under Armour Inc. revealed Thursday that its MyFitnessPal service had been hacked with the account details of 150 million users being stolen. MyFitnessPal is a smartphone app and website offered by the company that tracks diet and exercise to determine optimal caloric intake and nutrients for the users’ goals, using gamification elements ...

Encrypted-messaging startup Telegram Messenger LLC has raised an additional $850 million in its initial coin offering even as the service suffered serious downtime today. The figure, reported in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, came from the second stage of its ICO after it already raised $850 million in its ICO presale ...

Security firm Snyk Ltd. today said it has partnered with Google LLC to power the vulnerable JavaScript libraries audit in Google Chrome’s Lighthouse, an automated developer tool for improving the quality of web apps. The integration of Snyk’s open-source vulnerabilities data into Lighthouse is aimed at developing more secure web applications by making developers aware of ...

OPEN, a blockchain-based developer platform centered on providing payment infrastructure to mainstream application developers, Wednesday said it has received an investment from Tim Draper’s Draper Dragon Digital Asset Fund, though it didn’t disclose the amount. The OPEN Platform aims to bridge the gap between traditional application developers and the coming era of blockchain technologies by ...

Microsoft Corp.’s attempts to address the Meltdown vulnerability in Intel Corp. computer processing units have opened a new vulnerability in some versions of Windows, at least according to one researcher. The claim comes from Ulf Frisk, a security researcher based in Sweden, who wrote Tuesday that the patches released for Windows 7 x64 and Windows Server 2008 in ...

An aircraft manufacturing plant in South Carolina owned by the Boeing Co. was thrown into chaos Wednesday after its computer systems were taken down by what the Seattle Times reported is a WannaCry ransomware attack — the same kind that made global headlines in 2017. The details of the attack were revealed in a memo by Boeing Chief ...

Medical technology software-as-a-service communications platform provider Reachify opened its service to the public today after a private beta trial. Intended to provide an intelligent communication hub for medical practices, Reachify consolidates communication channels including phone, text, email, fax, social media into a single, collaborative workspace that promises to enable medical practices to operate more efficiently and attract ...

Macroless Word document malware attacks are surging in popularity among hackers, according to a new security report from WatchGuard Technologies Inc. The Internet Security Report for Q4 2017, based on data gathered from WatchGuard Firebox appliances protecting small and midsized businesses, found that malware attacks jumped 33 percent in the quarter. Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging Microsoft Office ...