Voter registration data from nine states has been found for sale online, raising serious privacy concerns. The initial finding comes from LookingGlass Cyber Solutions Inc., via a story in Dark Reading Monday. The firm discovered nearly 10 million voter records for sale on a darknet site called RaidForums, finding that the records from at least two of the states — ...

Hundreds of companies that use Google Inc.’s G Suite platform may be exposing their data to the public Internet because of poor setup practices, according to a newly published security advisory. Silicon Valley security and compliance company RedLock Inc. made the claim Monday, finding that a “misconfiguration” in Google Groups has led to the exposure of sensitive ...

Another day, yet another hack of a company involved in an initial coin offering. Veritaseum Inc., a company attempting to raise funds, was hacked on Sunday to the tune of $8.4 million in stolen tokens. The company, which appears to be looking to develop a “proprietary P2P smart contract” platform that combines “the transformational power of ...

Malware is exploding across the globe, and now we know by how much. Security company Comodo Group Inc. said in a new report that it detected a nearly fourfold increase in malware infections in the second quarter — not compared with a year ago, but with just three months ago. In its “Comodo Threat Research ...

The adage that governments cannot be trusted with private data has been proven once again. The Swedish government has been caught giving foreign nationals access to the data of millions of citizens, including the nation’s transport register, police registers and military secrets. The data leak occurred in September 2015, when the Swedish Transport Agency outsourced the management of ...

Bitcoin has survived its first weekend following an agreement to implement a software upgrade designed to allow the cryptocurrency to scale and operate more efficiently. The upgrade, referred to as BIP91, involves the implementation of the Segwit2x code that changes the transaction structure of the bitcoin blockchain to increase a cap on the amount of data that can be stored ...

Microsoft Corp. has launched a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to track down bugs in software. Previously known by the name of “Project Springfield,” the new tool introduced Friday uses a process called “fuzz testing.” It’s designed to find vulnerabilities in software by dumping large amounts of random data into software to see whether it triggers ...

The world’s first autonomous cargo ship is planned to be launched in 2018, as a company in Norway said Saturday that it has committed to build and deploy one. Two companies, Yara International ASA and Kongsberg Gruppen, have joined forces to build the “Yara Birkeland,” a container vessel that will cart fertilizer on a 37-mile route from a production ...

There’s a strange new twist to the Parity Ethereum wallet hacking story Wednesday in which 150,000 ETH tokens ($31 million) was stolen from three companies that had recently raised funds through an initial coin offering. Now, so-called “white hat” hackers are claiming to have stolen an additional 377,000 ETH tokens ($85 million) for safekeeping and are ...

The disappearance of darknet marketplace AlphaBay was first thought to be an exit scam, then was linked to the alleged suicide of one of its owners before credit was claimed by the Department of Justice. Whatever the reason for its demise, it turns out AlphaBay is also an object lesson in how not to run an illegal ...