Over the past few years non-military drones have been deployed for an increasing number of uses, delivering everything from medical supplies to  7-Eleven Slurpees. Now, they’re going to deliver … insurance assessments. Australian-owned global insurance company QBE Insurance Group Ltd. is now using drones to better assess damage in disaster affected areas to process insurance claims faster. They have been deployed ...

Co-working firm WeWork Inc. is negotiating an investment from SoftBank that could be as high as $4 billion, according to a report published Sunday by CNBC. The deal is said to involve an initial investment of $2 billion followed by a secondary round worth “more than $1 billion” that could end up being $2 billion. WeWork ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled a new Gear VR headset with a controller powered by Facebook Inc.’s Oculus at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Sunday. The new virtual reality headset itself only has minor changes over the last version of the headset which included a 101-degree field of view while supporting both USB-C and MicroUSB Samsung ...

Investors heavily sold bitcoin in trading early Friday morning after the cryptocurrency hit a record high of $1,206.02 in overnight trading. The surge in the price of bitcoin has been attributed to growing confidence that at least one of the three proposed bitcoin-focused exchange-traded funds, including the long-attempted Winklevoss ETF, will gain approval from the ...

A former systems administrator who was convicted on a charge relating to his decision to delete files at a company where he worked is appealing his sentence on the grounds that he was authorized to do so. The argument could have serious ramifications for the enterprise information technology industry. Michael Thomas, now 38, was convicted in June under the federal ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. has patched a software bug that exposed sensitive information including passwords, cookies and tokens used to authenticate users from the websites of its 5.5 million users, including those of Uber Technologies Inc., OK Cupid and Fitbit Inc. The discovery of the security flaw was first made by Google Project Zero ...

Researchers at Google Inc. and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatic have managed to achieve a collision attack against SHA-1, proving finally that the commonly used cryptography standard can be easily subverted. For those not aware of the standard, or only understand SHA-1 encryption in passing, SHA-1 is a cryptographic hash function, simply a way to securely encode ...

A newly discovered form of ransomware that targets macOS users encrypts files but because of poor coding provides no way for the files to be decrypted, according to a report published Wednesday. Called Patcher, the ransomware is distributed via torrent files that advertise license crackers for applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro or Microsoft Office for ...

Police in Denmark are claiming to have achieved a world first, hunting down Internet drug traffickers by analyzing bitcoin transactions. According to local media, The Danish National Police Cyber Crime Center, or NC3, has developed a new toolkit that has now been used to prosecute two drug traffickers in separate cases. In one case in January in ...

The now famous proof-of-concept hack in 2015 where hackers were able to hijack a Jeep Cherokee while it was being driven shown a spotlight on potential security problems with connected cars. Since then, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued warnings, and best practice guidelines were published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. But new research ...