In a damaging public disclosure, Cisco Systems Inc. has admitted that more than 300 of the switches it sells contain a critical vulnerability that allows the Central Intelligence Agency to take full control of the devices, but there is currently no patch available to fix the critical vulnerability. The revelation follows WikiLeaks’ disclosure of the CIA’s ...

Adobe Systems Inc. is strengthening its cloud offerings with a new service that combines parts of its marketing, analytics and content tools in an effort to broaden its footprint for enterprise marketing users. Called the Adobe Experience Cloud, the new service consists of the Adobe Marketing Cloud, a new Advertising Cloud, Analytics Cloud, Creative Cloud and ...

A promise by WikiLeaks to provide big tech companies with details of hacking exploits it had received via a leak from the Central Intelligence Agency has hit a snag as the organization demanded the tech firms comply with a set of “mystery demands.” Exactly what WikiLeaks is demanding from the likes of Google Inc., Apple Inc. and ...

China looks set to impose strict regulations on bitcoin as the country’s central bank circulates new guidelines that would require exchanges to identify clients and adhere to banking regulations. According to The Wall Street Journal, the draft regulations would require Chinese bitcoin exchanges to comply with current banking and anti-money-laundering laws that include the requirement to ...

Updated with opening price and analysis. In the year’s first big enterprise technology initial public offering, application network platform provider MuleSoft Inc. went public today and its shares jumped some 44 percent over the offering price. It offered 13 million Class A shares on the New York Stock Exchange at a price of $17 per share, above an ...

If you had problems using Google Drive Thursday, you weren’t alone. The search giant pushed out a faulty software update to Windows users that caused problems with the service. The client application software, which according to reports appeared to be private build of the new Google Backup and Sync (Drive), resulted in users receiving an error message that ...

Smartphone-enabled electrocardiogram system startup AliveCor Inc. has raised $30 million late-stage funding round led by medical device maker Omron Healthcare and the Mayo Clinic. Founded in 2010 and led by former Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. executive Vic Gundotra, AliveCor offers a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram recorder. Along ...

Nvidia Corp.’s efforts to bring its self-driving technology to more vehicles has taken another step forward as the chip maker announced a new deal with truck maker Paccar Inc. on Thursday. Paccar, the manufacturer of Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF trucks, has developed a proof-of-self-driving truck with SAE Level 4, or completely autonomous, capability built on Nvidia’s Drive PX2 platform that ...

Wishbone, a quiz app popular with teenagers, has been hacked, exposing the details of 2.2 million email addresses and some 287,000 mobile phone numbers being stolen. Created by Science Mobile LLC, Wishbone has been downloaded between 1 million and 5 million times from the Google Play store. It allows users to “compare anything [that their] heart desires!” including ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted four people, two of whom are alleged to work for the Russian FSB intelligence agency, over the 2014 hack of Yahoo Inc. In its indictment filing, the DOJ alleged that Russian intelligence agents Igor Suschin and Dmitry Dokuchaev hired fellow Russian Alexsey Belan and Canadian citizen Karim Baratov to hack Yahoo’s servers so ...