A class action lawsuit is being pursued against Bitcoin.com and owner Roger Ver for deceptive practices and potential losses related to the way both the site and Ver have promoted bitcoin spinoff Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash, or BCH, is a fork, that is a cryptocurrency based on bitcoin that works in a similar fashion to ...

A Michigan man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after hacking a prison system to shorten the sentence of an associate. Twenty-seven-year-old Konrads Voits, the not-so-bright criminal mastermind in the story, engaged in a spear-phishing campaign to hack into the Washtenaw County Jail’s computer system between January and March 2017 in an attempt ...

A security researcher has published a proof-of-concept attack that can trigger an infamous “blue screen of death” on the current Microsoft Windows and as far back as version 7. Detailed by Bitdefender’s Marius Tivadar on GitHub, the PoC exploits a vulnerability found in the way that Windows handles NTFS file system images that can be ...

T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp., the third- and fourth-largest mobile carriers in the U.S., Sunday announced they’ve agreed to merge. Sprint agreed to be acquired by T-Mobile in a $26.6 billion all-stock deal that will see the two companies combine forces to push forward with a rollout of next-generation 5G wireless network technology. Under the ...

In a surprise move, mobile payments company Square Inc. has acquired online website Weebly Inc., an online website creator, in a cash and stock deal worth about $365 million. Founded in 2007, Weebly describes itself as a “complete platform that allows anyone to start and grow an online business with curated website templates, powerful e-commerce and integrated ...

Updated: The wave of initial public offerings of technology companies hasn’t crested yet, as two more hit the market Friday — both opening well above their offering price. DocuSign Inc. saw its shares jump more than 35 percent and Smartsheet Inc.’s shares rose more than 20 percent as they began trading Friday morning. They had already ...

Israeli startup Innoviz Technologies Inc., in partnership with investor and auto parts maker Magna International, today said it has signed a deal to supply BMW Group with LiDAR units for BMW’s forthcoming range of autonomous vehicles. The deal is notable because it’s the first big deal for Innoviz since it announced the commercial availability of ...

A newly identified form of cryptomining malware that employs a U.S. National Security Agency vulnerability disclosed last year is causing concern among security experts because it may be a form of attack that could surge in the year ahead. Dubbed PyRoMine by researchers at Fortinet Inc., the new Python-based malware uses EternalRomance, a related exploit to the ExternalBlue exploit ...

Hackers could create a master key that can be used to access electronic locks used by tens of thousands of hotels, putting the security of hotel rooms at risk. Detailed today by Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen, both researchers at the cybersecurity firm F-Secure, the hack is described as taking just one minute. It involves the creation of ...

Smart speaker and audio tech maker Sonos Inc. has confidentially filed for an initial public offering that could see it float as soon as summer, according to a report published today by the Wall Street Journal. The report, citing people familiar with the process, said Sonos is seeking to raise funds on a valuation of $2.5 billion ...