A class action lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for Northern California is accusing Apple of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of implied warranty, unjust enrichment, and breaking the Magnuson-Moss and Song-Beverly Warranty Acts due to faults in the company’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The defect, referred to as “touch disease,” sees affected ...

Could the forthcoming Presidential election on November 8 be hacked? While the answer to that question remains, news has emerged that voting systems in two states have actually been hacked, including one instance of voting registration data being stolen. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a “flash alert” after it uncovered evidence that ...

Users of domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy, Inc. are being targeted by two new phishing scams that are attempting to gain access to their accounts. The main phishing scam is one where users are sent details that their domains have sold, while a second, lesser known scam involves users receiving notices that the ...

The son of a Russian lawmaker was convicted Thursday on 38 counts related to his hacking of point-of-sale computers to steal and sell credit card numbers on the dark net. Thirty two-year-old Roman Valerevich Seleznev, the son of Valery Seleznev, a member of the Russian Parliament, stood accused of 10 counts of wire fraud, eight ...

Facebook has fired all members of its Trending news team and has replaced moderation with an algorithm following allegations of systematic political bias first raised in May. According to Quartz, 15-18 workers were shown the door, and supervision over the news will now go to engineers who, unlike those they replaced, will not be interfering in ...

Philippine Bitcoin fintech startup Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI) has acquired bitcoin investment app Keza for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2015, Keza allowed bitcoin users to invest in bitcoin or fixed income stocks in the United States or other international stock exchanges via a mobile app. The app allowed users to invest in three types of trading ...

How much of Uber Technologies, Inc.’s war chest is the ridesharing unicorn currently burning through in its efforts to dominate the ridesharing market globally? $1.27+ billion in the first six months of 2016, according to multiple reports Thursday. According to Bloomberg, Uber lost $520 million before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the first quarter of ...

Apple wants a slice of the social sharing market and is building a new app that would work in a similar fashion to Snapchat, according to a report published Thursday. Bloomberg claims the new app will offer video sharing and editing on iOS devices, and are part of a new focus by the company to integrate ...

Apple has issued an urgent update to its iOS mobile operating system following the revelation that three security flaws in the system could allow potential hackers to take control of an Apple device using a zero-day exploit. The revelation that iPhone users aren’t as safe as thought came via researchers from Citizen Lab (Munk School ...

In a win for the good guys, a group backed by police and security companies have developed a free decryption tool for victims of the Wildfire variant of ransomware. The tool comes from the No More Ransom initiative, a collaborative project between Europol, the Dutch National Police, Intel Security, and Kaspersky Lab that provides keys ...