Updated with Tencent investment and Wednesday share price Shares of Snap Inc. plunged in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company behind the Snapchat messaging app reported user growth and revenue below what market analysts had forecast. Snap reported third-quarter revenue of $207.9 million, up 62 percent compared to the same quarter in 2016 but below the ...

Network security company Tenable Inc. today said it has signed a strategic partnership with Siemens AG to assist energy, utilities and oil and gas companies defend against cyberattacks. The deal will see the launch of “Industrial Security” from Tenable, which Siemens will deliver as a service to help companies secure and protect their critical operational technology assets. Siemens, perhaps ...

Bjork is the latest to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. The famous Icelandic singer announced Friday that fans can purchase her new album using cryptocurrencies and that everyone who does will be rewarded with an obscure cryptocurrency in return. Bjork (pictured) is accepting payments in bitcoin, litecoin, dashcoin and something called “audiocoin.” Every fan who preorders her album will ...

A new form of the Marcher Android malware has been discovered in the wild, delivering a hat-trick of malicious actions in the form of phishing, credit card data theft and, to top it off, a banking trojan virus. First spotted Friday by researchers at Proofpoint Inc., the new “multistep” version involves the original version of the Marcher Android banking ...

The Tor Project, the group behind the anonymous Tor browser and related services, has announced that it’s working on a new, more secure version of the technology that will make the anonymous browsing promised by the technology truly anonymous again. Although Tor is best-known publicly for providing access to the dark net and the various criminal ...

Visitors to popular anime streaming site Crunchyroll received more than the pleasure of accessing Japanese cartoons over the weekend after the domain name service for the site was hacked to serve up malicious downloads as well. The attack, which occurred on Saturday, involved hackers gaining access to Crunchyroll’s Cloudflare config file to redirect visitors to a ...

More than a million people are believed to have downloaded a malicious, fake version of Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp messaging app from the Google Play store. First spotted by users on Reddit Friday, the app, dubbed “Update WhatsApp Messenger” was listed as coming from “WhatsApp Inc.,” the official name of the Facebook-owned company. How the fake app ...

Bitcoin fans are fond of claiming that the price of the cryptocurrency is heading to the moon, but it may now be halfway to Mars. The price of bitcoin broke yet another new record in trading Thursday thanks to rumors that Amazon.com Inc. might be about to enter the market. The price of bitcoin hit ...

Ransomware-as-a-service will see the insidious malware spread rapidly beyond personal computers in the year ahead, according to the new report out Thursday from Sophos Group plc. The Sophos 2018 Malware Forecast looked at the direction malware took in 2017 to make its predictions for the year ahead. The new trends include the continuing rise of RaaS, ...

Weeks after a farce that saw Google LLC stop using a cupcake emoji thanks to accusations by social justice warriors that its use constituted fat shaming, a new drama has emerged at the body that certifies emojis over a proposal to implement a “frowning poo emoji.” The argument over the emoji is between developers working with ...