A serious content-injection vulnerability in the popular WordPress content management system, first discovered at the end of January, has been used to deface more than 1.9 million sites. Seattle-based security firm WordFence Inc., which described it as “one of the worst WordPress related vulnerabilities to emerge in some time,” said in a blog post that ...

Hacking tools believed to have originated from government-focused Israeli spyware company NSO Group have been used to target health activists who support a soda tax in Mexico, according to a report published Friday. The New York Times wrote that the tools, which are exclusively sold only to governments, targeted researchers and activists between 2014 and 2016, including Simon ...

A new survey has cast serious doubts on whether Snap Inc., the maker of the Snapchat messaging app, has much chance of remaining successful in the future. The survey, undertaken by marketing firm Fluent, found that nearly half of all American adults think that Snapchat is “just a fad,” while 62 percent of existing Snapchat users believe ...

Two lawmakers representing both sides of the political spectrum have launched a Congressional Blockchain Caucus dedicated to the advancement of sound public policy toward blockchain-based technologies and digital currencies. First proposed by Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) in September, the bipartisan caucus will seek to educate people and provide research to help policymakers implement smart regulatory ...

Cloud security startup Evident.io Inc. has raised $22 million Series C in a round led by GV, the former Google Ventures, and joined by existing investors Bain Capital, True Ventures and Venrock. Founded in 2013, Evident.io offers cloud security and compliance automation that endeavors to deliver the fastest security intelligence available to cloud engineers. The company’s ...

A French man is suing Uber Technologies Inc. for about $48 million over a fault in its mobile app that allowed his wife to find out he was cheating on him, ultimately leading to a divorce. The unnamed man, identified only as hailing from Côte d’Azur in the south of France, alleges that a problem with Uber’s ...

As the tax season looms, the Internal Revenue Service is warning employers to be on the lookout for an evolved W-2 email phishing scam that is targeting companies as well as school districts, tribal organizations and nonprofits. The W-2, the U.S. federal tax form that employers send to employees and the IRS,  reports not only annual wages ...

Security firm Sophos Group plc has acquired Invincea Inc., an endpoint security solutions startup that uses virtual application containers to protect against advanced malware and other threats. The price of the acquisition came in at $100 million in cash with an additional $20 million earn-out dependent on performance targets being met. Founded in 2009, Invincea offers ...

Security firm Exabeam Inc. has raised $30 million in a late-stage funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Cisco Investments. The Series C round also included existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, Icon Ventures and Shlomo Kramer. As part of the deal, Lightspeed’s Ravi Mhatre will join Exabeam’s board. Founded in 2013, Exabeam provides security intelligence and management ...

A former intern at security company FireEye Inc., who was arrested in 2015 after it was discovered he was one of the world’s top Android hackers, avoided a jail term at his sentencing hearing on Monday. Twenty-year-old Morgan Culbertson stood accused of being the mastermind behind Dendroid, a form of malware that infects Android phones ...