The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning to medical and dental providers to be aware that “criminal actors” are actively targeting File Transfer Protocol servers to gain access to private information they can use to intimidate, harass and blackmail business owners. According to the agency, attackers are particularly targeting FTP servers operating in ...

Apple Inc. has released a new update for iOS devices that patches a flaw in its Safari browser that allowed hackers to execute a “scareware” campaign designed to trick people into buying unnecessary antivirus software. First discovered by mobile security firm Lookout Inc., the vulnerability allowed nefarious actors to abuse the pop-up dialogs in Safari in a away that it ...

Tesla Inc. is facing a discrimination lawsuit from a former factory worker who claims that, among other things, he was racially harassed while working on the company’s car line in Fremont, California. DeWitt Lambert, a 44-year-old man previously from Alabama, joined Tesla in the summer of 2015 until he left in the spring of 2016 after ...

A new Swedish company is taking bitcoin to Iran with a new investment service that allows users to invest in equities using the cryptocurrency on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Brave New World Investments AB is pitching the service as a way for European bitcoin holders to invest in Iranian equities since the lifting of some ...

A new bot is checking the balance of electronic gift cards in order to defraud legitimate card owners, cybersecurity firm Distil Networks Inc. has discovered. Dubbed GiftGhostBot, the advanced persistent bot launches brute-force attacks against online retailers that accept gift cards. The bot queries randomly generated gift card numbers against the targeted e-commerce sites to see if ...

Uber Technologies Inc.’s run of bad news just won’t stop. This weekend, the ridesharing giant was forced to suspend its self-driving vehicle program after one of its vehicles was involved in an accident. (Update: On Monday, Uber said it’s resuming the program in San Francisco, partly because it doesn’t currently transport passengers, but activities remain ...

Microsoft Corp. has removed the search function from its Docs.com service after it was revealed that the feature allowed anyone to search and view documents from other users. The security flaw, first identified by Twitter users over the weekend, allowed anyone to use the search box on the site to access publicly accessible documents and files stored ...

Southeast Asian Uber Technologies Inc. rival GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd. is raising a new round of $1.5 billion, according to a report published late Friday. Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the matter, claims that the round will be led by Japanese giant SoftBank Group Corp. to the tune of $1 billion but notes that it isn’t clear ...

Games crowdfunding site Fig Publishing Inc. has taken an interesting path in raising money by giving fans and investors the ability to buy shares in forthcoming title “Wasteland 3.” The game, a followup to the successful “Wasteland 2” from inXile Entertainment, has already raised $3.1 million in funding and investment reservations from 17,707 fans, who gave their ...

Bitcoin scams have surged as the cryptocurrency has hit record highs, according to research published Thursday by the security firm ZeroFOX Inc. The research found that along with traditional scams such as phishing attempts and pyramid schemes, new types of financial scams involving bitcoin are actively spreading across social networks. There is a wide array ...