A vulnerability in Wi-Fi chipsets manufactured by Broadcom Ltd. and used in Android and iOS devices allows attackers to gain easy access to the devices, according to newly published research. Details of the vulnerability, first published by Google’s Project Zero security team member Gal Beniamini, specify that a remote-code execution vulnerability lies in Broadcom’s Wi-Fi stack that ...

Following a move by the Japanese government to recognize bitcoin as a legal payment method, hundreds of thousands of retail outlets in the country look set to allow the use of the cryptocurrency as a payment option. Two major Japanese retailers have signed deals to accept bitcoin. Electronics retailer Bic Camera Inc. announced that its outlets will start ...

A Canadian man accused of being part of a Russian group that infamously hacked Yahoo Inc. in 2014 has made his first appearance in court to apply for bail prior to his extradition hearing. Karim Baratov, 22, was one of four people indicted U.S. Department of Justice in March, is accused of working for alleged Russian intelligence ...

A study released this week by researchers at Virginia Tech has found that not only do Android apps leak data but they also mine smartphone users’ data by secretly colluding with each other. The study, described as the “first ever large-scale and systematic study of exactly how the trusty apps on Android phones are able to talk to ...

Facebook Inc. is upping its efforts to challenge Slack Technologies Inc. in team collaboration by launching a new free version of its Workplace service. Workplace originally launched in October, offering an intra-office communication platform that mixes some of Facebook’s most popular social features with tools designed specifically for the workplace. But it was strictly a paid offering that ...

IBM Corp. has upped the ante for its cloud hosting services, announcing that it is the first major cloud provider to make Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla P100 graphics processing unit available globally. The rollout of the Tesla P100 GPUs brings Nvidia’s acceleration technology together with IBM’s cloud platform to allow businesses to more quickly and efficiently ...

VMware is exiting the hybrid cloud hosting business as the company sells its long-struggling vCloud Air division to French hosting company OVH for an undisclosed price. Introduced at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas in 2008 with the hybrid service following in 2013, vCloud Air was pitched as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud hosting offering that aimed ...

Exscudo, a new company that’s aiming to build a bridge between traditional financial systems and cryptocurrency markets, is set to launch an initial crowdfunding offer. Founded in 2016, Exscudo is attempting to build a single gateway to the cryptocurrency market by offering a range of services currently provided by different providers in the one location. Those ...

A newly discovered remote-access tool that targets users of a Korean language word processor uses legitimate sites to target victims. Dubbed ROKRAT by Cisco System Inc.’s Talos security arm, the RAT uses a phishing campaign to target users of the Korean language Microsoft Word alternative Hangul Word Processor. The attack vector is fairly typical for a phishing ...

When some people think of smart glasses, they might think of video blogger Robert Scoble wearing Google Glass in the shower. But a new set of augmented reality glasses from Osterhout Design Group Inc. is designed to be used in more hazardous locations than Scoble’s bathroom. Called the R-7HL (“Hazardous Location”), the new pair of smart glasses are ...