Payroll data from messaging app maker Snapchat, Inc. has fallen into the wrong hands after an employee was fooled into emailing it to a person who was pretending to be an employee of the company. According to a post from Snapchat Sunday, the scammer impersonated Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel and sent a spear-phishing email ...

In a case of “it had to happen eventually,” a Google self-driving car has been partially blamed for an accident with a bus on Valentine’s Day, February 14. In a statutory filing submitted (pdf) to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, Google Automotive, a branch of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc. said that the accident occurred ...

Dark Web data intelligence tracking startup Terbium Labs, Inc. has raised $6.4 million Series A in a round led by .406 Ventures. Founded in 2013 and debuting in 2015, Terbium Labs’ main product is called Matchlight, a platform claimed to offer the world’s first fully private, fully automated security data intelligence system. Matchlight offers private, ...

Could the Blockchain, the distributed ledger that powers Bitcoin, prevent the next financial meltdown? First Global Credit, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gavin Smith believes that it could, and shared his thoughts on a soon-to-be published missive on the subject with SiliconANGLE. He opens by comparing what happened last time around, as the nominee for Best ...

If you haven’t heard of the MMM Bitcoin scam yet consider yourself lucky, but this Ponzi scheme continues to do the rounds, both in the developing world and first world, to the point where SiliconANGLE’s previous coverage continues to gain traffic as more and more “members” attempt to sign up new users. So what is ...

Russian Bitcoin and altcoin exchange YObit.net is facing some difficulties with users reporting that they are having problems withdrawing funds from the site and obtaining support services. Founded in January 2015, YObit.net differentiates itself by offering an extremely wide range of altcoins and allows altcoin makers to list their altcoins on the site, seemingly unchecked, ...

A new form of malware has found its way into apps listed in the Google Play Android app store and is secretly clicking on ads on porn sites, according to a report published last week. According to ESET security researchers, over the prior seven months over 300 apps hosting the “porn clicker” malware have been ...

Google, Inc. likes to present itself as a champion of free speech, and is a major contributor to the Chilling Effects website, a site that documents DMCA takedown requests. But if you follow the broader copyright debate you know there’s a major flaw in Google’s empire, and that’s its video hosting site YouTube. For years ...

Microsoft Corp.’s augmented reality headset the HoloLens is just about here, at least for developers, with news over the weekend that it’s about to go on pre-order sale this Monday. According to a post from Forbes published before the embargo but since withdrawn, the HoloLens will be offered on pre-order from February 29 for $3000, with ...

The Apple, Inc. rumor mill keeps on churning with various new reports about an alleged forthcoming product launch event emerging Friday and Saturday. At the top of the list is a new date for the event, with Buzzfeed placing it as March 21st, one day before Apple is due in court over its feud with the ...