Dow Jones & Co. has followed in the footsteps of Verizon Communications Inc. by leaving private customer records exposed to the public on a cloud server. Similar to Verizon, the 2.2 million records were found publicly available on an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket and were also discovered by Chris Guard of the security firm UpGuard ...

A startup attempting to raise money through an initial coin offering has been hacked, and about $7 million worth of Ethereum tokens invested by customers has been stolen in the process. CoinDash, a company that was aiming to build a “blockchain asset social trading platform,” was attempting to raise the equivalent of $12 million from ...

Hoping to jumpstart commercial and enterprise use of its hand tracking technology, high-profile startup Leap Motion Inc. has raised $50 million in a later-stage round. Founded in 2010, Leap Motion is developing hand tracking for use in virtual and augmented reality worlds, allowing users to interact with those worlds using hand movements. The company’s technology allows computers ...

Google Inc. is pushing users to switch from messaging-based two-step login verification to a phone-based service instead as a way to bypass the security risks of Simple Messaging Service authentication services. Beginning this week, Google will invite users of its existing so-called SMS 2-SV service to use a different login method. The alternative service, known as Google ...

Amazon.com Inc. wants a slice of the consumer messaging market, at least according to a report published late last week. The e-commerce and cloud computing giant apparently is developing an app that would take on services provided by Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Google Inc. The claim comes from AFTV News, which got its hands on ...

Google Inc. got a win Friday in its ongoing dispute with the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs over data on pay gaps between men and women at the company. A judge ruled that a data request by the office was “overbroad, intrusive on employee privacy, unduly burdensome and insufficiently focused on obtaining the ...

The Australian government is preparing to introduce legislation that would attempt to force tech companies to crack encrypted messages sent by suspected terrorists, traffickers and child sex offenders. Proposed at a press conference Friday by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (pictured, right, with President Donald Trump), a man who made his millions through his ownership of what was once ...

Since their invention in 1958, pacemakers have saved many lives, but in 2017 its benefits are more complicated. Not only do the devices face the risk of being hacked, their data can also be used in criminal trials. An Ohio judge this week ruled that the data recorded by a pacemaker can be used as ...

The mystery behind the disappearance of darknet marketplace AlphaBay may have been solved, though not happily. Reports claim that the service, which allowed the sale of drugs, hacking tools and other illegal items, was shut down following a global law enforcement operation that led to the arrest of an owner of the site in Thailand, who ...

A new hacking tool operated via a smartphone to hijack websites is being praised on forums on a shady part of the Internet for its ease of use and ongoing support. It’s called the “Katyusha Scanner,” after the Russian rocket launcher of the same name used during World War II. The SQL injection tool combines the ...