Bitcoin exchange and wallet provider Snapcard Inc. is leaving the bitcoin business to focus on an alternative blockchain-based payments service. Snapcard operated as a bitcoin-focused exchange and wallet provider from its launch in 2013, catering to customers in both the United States and Brazil. It then launched Masspay, an enterprise-level application programming interface that allowed companies ...

Evrythng Inc. on Tuesday said it has raised a $24.8 million round to push its Internet of Things smart products platform ahead. Founded in 2011, Evrythng offers an enterprise-focused IoT platform for managing intelligent software identities in the cloud and digital lifecycle applications for product manufacturers. The company’s platform connects consumer products to the web and ...

A sex toy company has agreed to pay its customers up to $10,000 each in compensation after it was revealed that its Internet-connected vibrators were collecting highly sensitive information without their consent. If you’re not up to scratch with the latest in these particular Internet of Things devices, We-Vibe launched the vibrator in 2014 (marginally NSFW) that ...

Israeli enterprise logistics startup Bringg Delivery Technologies Ltd. on Tuesday said it has raised a $10 million funding round. Founded in 2013, Bringg offers a Software-as-a-Service enterprise supply-chain and delivery technology platform that allows companies to manage on-demand and last-mile deliveries. The company claims that its platform helps companies streamline their entire delivery ecosystem, from the ...

The fight for the next generation of the bitcoin platform just took an unexpected twist: Antpool, the world’s largest bitcoin miner, has backed Bitcoin Unlimited’s proposal along with a number of other high-profile miners. Bitcoin Unlimited, first proposed by Roger “Bitcoin Jesus” Ver, is a bitcoin fork proposal that would remove the blocksize limit on ...

New research has found that zero-day flaws — that is, holes in software that are unknown to suppliers and can be exploited by hackers — live a long time. The flaws have an average life expectancy of 6.9 years, according to a new study of more than 200 zero-day flaws obtained from a vulnerability research ...

Prosecutors in Norway have demanded that a number of criminals charged with selling drugs pay part of their penalty in bitcoin, the first time that a country in Scandinavia and possibly all of Europe has demanded compensation using the cryptocurrency. The case involved three men arrested in June 2015 who were alleged to have been ...

A new paper from Northeastern University researchers has found that more than a third of websites may using at least one JavaScript library with a known security vulnerability. The research analyzed 133,000 domains based on Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa Top 75,000 list and randomly selected .com domains by assessing 72 different JavaScript libraries including jQuery, Angular, Handlebars, Bootstrap, Modernizr, Moment, LoDash and ...

The price of bitcoin recovered over the weekend after the shock rejection by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the application from the Winklevoss twins to list their Bitcoin Trust Exchange-Traded Fund. The famous twins filed the proposed ETF back in 2015 as a way for those interested in investing in bitcoin to do so without investing ...

Software-as-a-Service cyber-attack simulation startup Cymulate has raised $3 million funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity LLC. Founded in 2016 in Israel, Cymulate offers a cybersimulation platform that can assess the security preparedness of customers by exposing hidden vulnerabilities on enterprise networks so they can be addressed before they can be exploited. The startup’s platform covers ...