French insurance giant AXA SA has launched a new insurance product that utilizes the Ethereum blockchain to manage insurance contracts and to process payments. Called “fizzy,” the new product is described by the company as a “fresh new genre in insurance” that offers compensation to policyholders whose flights are delayed by more than two hours. ...

Other credit reporting agencies were exposed to the same security vulnerabilities exploited in the Equifax Inc. hack as the comedy of errors at the company continues to compound. News that Experian and AnnualCreditReport.com – an organization set up by Equifax, Experian Information Solutions Inc. and TransUnion LLC — were exposed to the Apache Struts2 vulnerability used ...

Washington D.C.-based exploit prevention company Zerodium Inc. Wednesday announced a new bug bounty program that will pay up to $1 million to security researchers and white hat hackers who identify new exploits in the Tor browser on security-focused Tails Linux and Windows. Tor is the anonymous network perhaps best known as being the gateway to ...

Data stolen in the massive hack of U.S. consumer credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. could be worth more than $32 million on the dark web, according to estimates made by one security company. The number comes from Intsights Inc., which tells SiliconANGLE that it has used its knowledge of the dark web, a shady part of the ...

Microsoft Corp. patched 85 security vulnerabilities in its monthly “Patch Tuesday” today, including a serious security flaw in its .NET framework that allows malicious attachments to hijack targeted personal computers. The September Patch Tuesday, numbered 15063.608, offers updates for all supported versions of Windows systems and other products and includes a patch for CVE-2017-8759, the .NET ...

The Trump administration has revised rules for self-driving cars introduced by President Obama, including simplifying safety standards and shifting from a regulation model to a voluntary one. The new guidelines, issued in a paper called “A Vision for Safety: 2.0,” detail a reduction of the 15 original safety guidelines introduced for self-driving car companies to ...

Billions of Bluetooth-enabled devices are exposed to a number of recently discovered vulnerabilities that allow a hacker to access and take control of devices, install malware and undertake other malicious activities, according to newly published research. Discovered by security firm Armis Labs Inc. and dubbed “BlueBorne,” the vulnerability affects major mobile, desktop, and IoT operating systems, including ...

U.S. consumer credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. will soon be heading to court with multiple lawsuits being filed against the company following its disclosure of a massive hack last week. The lawsuits, which stand at least two dozen according to Reuters, come in a number of different flavors, including one suit that alleges that Equifax was ...

Because humanity doesn’t have enough things to worry about already, a cybersecurity expert has issued a warning that sex robots may kill people in the near future. Nick Patterson, from Deakin University in Australia, is behind the killer sex robot warning, telling The Daily Star that the robots could be hacked by those with nefarious intent, or ...

Mike Cagney, chief executive officer and co-founder of San Francisco-based financial technology startup Social Finance Inc., SoFi, is stepping down from his position following sexual harassment allegations. Cagney, 46, is accused of having “inappropriate relationships with SoFi employees” that apparently “helped foment a toxic workplace culture,” according to the New York Times. Translated into English, it ...