Enterprise security provider Blue Coat Systems, Inc. has released its 2015 State of Mobile Malware report and if you’re in the security business, let alone and end user, it makes for some disturbing reading. The core finding of the annual report found that mobile malware is more vicious than ever as mobile devices are becoming ...

A hack of a free web hosting provider has seen millions of user account details offered on the Darkweb. The hack of 000Webhost, a Lithuanian provider, was discovered by independent security researcher Troy Hunt, best known for running the service Have I been pwned?, who was contacted by an anonymous source who claimed to have ...

Cisco Systems, Inc. has acquired Cupertino, CA-based over-the-top (OTT) cloud streaming platform startup 1 Mainstream, Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2012, 1 Mainstream offers an automated platform for distribution of linear and on-demand content to connected devices such as digital televisions, game consoles, tablets and streaming devices. The company aims to eliminate obstacles ...

A new survey of leading executives by machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) Aeris Communications, Inc. has found that many see the value in IoT enterprise deployments, while still noting that there are significant challenges ahead. The survey polled 200 decision makers in the United States and 100 in the United Kingdom (IT managers, ...

Bitcoin and Blockchain incubator Digital Currency Group, Inc. (DCG) has raised an undisclosed amount of capital in a round that included Bain Capital Ventures, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), CME Ventures, FirstMark Capital, MasterCard, New York Life, Novel TMT, Oak HC/FT, RRE Ventures, Solon Mack Capital, and Transamerica Ventures. Founded this year, DCG builds, ...

Sports data tech firm Sportradar AG has raised $44 million in venture capital in a round led by Revolution Growth that included Michael Jordan (yes, that Michael Jordan) and Mark Cuban. Founded in 2003, Sportradar claims to be the world’s leading supplier of sports and betting-related data. The company offers a service that tracks data ...

Apple continues to ride the wave of the growing middle class in China with the tech giant posting a new record quarterly profit. Revenue for Apple’s fourth quarter came in at $51.5 billion with a net profit of $11.1 billion, up from revenue of $42.1 billion and a net profit of $8.5 billion for the ...

Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex (iFinex, Inc.) has announced a new partnership with Blade Payments (Blade Data Ltd.) to provide real-time debit cards to Bitfinex customers. The cards will support payments through Bitcoin by allowing the use of the card without preloading a fiat currency and can be used at any time in what the company describes ...

Time, Inc. has continued its buying spree of online media properties with the acquisition of sites xoJane.com and xoVain.com from Say Media, Inc. According to The Wall Street Journal, terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. xoJane.com was launched in 2011 by Sassy and Jane magazine founding editor Jane Pratt as a site where “women go ...

An unnamed 15-year-old boy has been arrested in relation to the massive hack and subsequent data breach of United Kingdom telco TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC. The boy, a resident of County Antrim, Northern Ireland was arrested on suspicion of breaching the Computer Misuse Act, a U.K. law that covers unauthorized access to computer material, unauthorized ...