Australian Bitcoin exchange igot Pty. Ltd. has ceased trading with users, reporting they are unable to obtain withdrawals from the site and that the company is not responding to support tickets. As of the time of writing, igot has ceased all public communications for over one week and have not responded to users or to ...

There are many great days in the history of technology, from man walking on the moon to the invention of the world wide web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. One day that for better or worse will always be remembered was 20 years ago today, August 24, 1995, when Microsoft Corp. released for sale Windows 95, ...

And so it has begun. Less than a week after hackers behind the Ashley Madison hack released some 30-40 million member records to the greater public, bad actors with a preference for extortion have started attempting to blackmail users for Bitcoin. According to KrebsonSecurity who broke the original hacking story, blackmailers are sending emails to ...

Apple’s now seemingly regular quality control issues have struck again with the tech giant being forced to offer a replacement program for iPhone 6 Plus users with faulty iSight cameras. According to the official announcement, Apple says the defects occur only in an unspecified “small percentage” of iPhone 6 Plus devices, with the iSight camera ...

Ridesharing service Uber, Inc. is going gangbusters according to a new leak of their financials Friday that shows that while the company continues to burn money like there is no tomorrow, the concept that you spend money to eventually make money, be it over a period of time, may actually work. According to a report ...

Unless you’ve been living in a cave these last few days, you’d know that hackers have released the compromised database of extra-marital affairs site Ashley Madison online. The exact number of members listed in the database itself isn’t precisely clear, but it is believed the number is somewhere in the vicinity of 30-40 million people. Originally ...

Japanese police are set to rearrest former Mt Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles as their investigation into the disappearance of funds from the now failed Bitcoin exchange continues. According to reports, local police believe they now have enough evidence to accuse Karpeles of embezzlement, alleging specifically that he misappropriated $2.6 million of deposits from ...

Digital healthcare scheduling company ZocDoc, Inc. has raised $130 million Series D in a round led by led by Baillie Gifford and Atomico that included previous investor Founders Fund. The new round was raised on a valuation of $1.8 billion, giving the company unicorn status for the first time. Founded in 2007, ZocDoc offers a ...

Apple’s quality control has been called into question again this week with reports that Apple Watch users are seeing the text printed on the rear of their watches peeling off. Dubbed “Logogate” by Forbes, keeping not only with the tradition of post Watergate naming conventions, but also Apple dramas including Bendgate, Antennagate and Updategate, involves ...

The hackers behind the hacking of extra-marital affairs site Ashley Madison struck again Thursday dumping a new release of 19GB of data. Serial cheaters may not have a huge amount to fear from the new release however, with the dump including a 13GB file named noel.biderman.mail.7z, suggesting that it contains e-mail from Noel Biderman, the ...