Dozens of popular Apple Inc. iOS apps contain serious security flaws that make them vulnerable to data interception, security researchers at Verify.ly have discovered. Some 76 apps, which included browser apps, news apps and various virtual private networking apps, were found to be open to a silent man-in-the-middle attack, a form of attack that allows a hacker to ...

A hacker has claimed to have dumped warning messages on over 150,000 unsecured Internet-connected printers in an alleged effort to raise awareness about printer security. The gray-hat hacker, going by the name of Stackoverflowin, targeted printers made by companies including Afico, Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, Lexmark, Konica Minolta, Oki and Samsung by using a script that ...

Uber Technologies Inc.’s ambitions are heading to the sky, and the ride-hailing giant has hired a former U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineer to lead its push into developing flying cars. Uber has hired Mark Moore, who was with NASA for 30 years and is regarded as an expert on vertical takeoff and landing vehicles to head Uber ...

Cloud infrastructure firm Stratoscale Inc. has acquired database-as-a-service startup Tesora Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2010, Tesora, previously known as ParElastic, aims to simplify the provision and management of databases by providing OpenStack administrators tools to offer their users self-service, managed databases for MySQL and other leading database platforms. The company’s enterprise-oriented version of OpenStack Trove is ...

3D metal printing startup Desktop Metal Inc. has raised $45 million in a late-stage funding round led by the Google Inc. venture capital arm GV. The round was raised at a valuation of $305 million, up from $100 million as of its last round in April 2016, according to Forbes. The Series C round included BMW i Ventures ...

Venezuela’s war on bitcoin is ramping up as the country’s largest exchange was forced to cease trading following the closure of its bank account. SurBitcoin informed its clients Feb. 3 that they should immediately withdraw their cash and cryptocurrency balances after its bank account at Banesco, the largest financial institution in Venezuela, was shut down without ...

Hackers affiliated with the “hacktivist” collective Anonymous have brought down Freedom Hosting II, the largest hosting provider on the dark web and host to a range of illegal activities, including child pornography. The hack took down 10,613 sites, an estimated 20 percent of all sites on the dark web. It was seemingly at first motivated ...

A computer worm that resulted in a wave of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2003 has mysteriously returned to the Internet in a series of attempted attacks late last year. Security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. detected the worm, called SQL Slammer, between Nov. 28 and Dec. 4 in what it described as a “massive surge” in ...

Two people have been arrested in relation to the hacking of Washington D.C.’s closed-circuit television camera network that resulted in 70 percent of the network going offline in the week before the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The two suspects, identified only as a 50-year-old British man and a Swedish woman of the same age, were arrested south ...

A new form of malware that steals bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency has been discovered by security firm Cyren Ltd. The as-yet unnamed malware is delivered via emails pretending to be notifications of online wire transfers, payment updates or swift transactions from banks such as Emirates NDB and DBS. The attachment to the email appears be a ...