As the price and interest in bitcoin continues to rise, it was only a matter of time until mainstream financial institutions wanted a slice of the action. That’s exactly what has happened in Switzerland as a private bank is now offering bitcoin services for the first time. The new service, described as the first private bank offering ...

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab will no longer be able to provide services to most U.S. government agencies after the firm was removed from two lists of approved vendors following allegations that the company was linked to Russian security services. The ban, first proposed in Congress in June, instead came directly from the Trump administration after ...

The personal information of 14 million customers of Verizon Communications Inc. has been discovered online thanks to what appears to be a security failure by a partner of the company. The data was found on an Amazon Web Service Inc.’s S3 server controlled by an employee of Nice Systems Ltd., an Israeli firm that specializes in telephone ...

The seemingly never ending saga of failed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox may finally be entering its final act. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges of embezzlement and data manipulation before the Tokyo District Court Tuesday. He stands accused of transferring 341 million yen ($3 million) from a Mt. Gox account holding customer ...

Customers of the Trump Hotel chain may soon be seeing orange, as news broke Tuesday that the chain owned by the president has been hacked, complete with credit card numbers and personal details getting stolen. The hack of the Trump Hotel chain, like the Hard Rock and Loews Hotel chains before it, was blamed on ...

Google Inc. has launched a new investment fund to invest in artificial-intelligence startups. Called Gradient, the new fund will be a early-stage venture capital fund with a difference. Not only will it invest in AI startups but it also will provide technical resources, dedicated access to experts, AI boot camps and mentorships. The new fund will ...

Two of Australia’s leading banks have teamed with IBM Corp. to prove blockchain technology can process bank guarantees on commercial property leasing. The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. and Westpac Banking Corp. used IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric platform to replace the traditional paper-based bank guarantee process used for commercial property leasing with a distributed digital ...

Data protection startup CryptoMove Inc., which launched after five years in stealth in January, has landed a contract with the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection Agency to secure data on drones and end-to-end data centers. The San Mateo, California-based company offers a decentralized datastore that protects data with dynamic movement, mutation, fragmentation and ...

A security researcher has managed to take control of the .io top-level domain name registry thanks to an epic security fail by the company that runs that domain. Researcher Matthew Bryant discovered that a number of the .io nameservers were available to register and he did just that – register them successfully, leaving him potentially in control of ...

Computer interfaces that allow human brains to control devices or provide direct data input to a user from a computer have long been a staple of science fiction. Now, new research suggests it may not be all that far off. Funded by the famed Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the tune of $65 million, five ...