A new device revealed at a security conference in Japan last week can hijack consumer drones, by exploiting a vulnerability in the frequency-hopping systems used to protect radio communications between an operator and the drone itself. The “Icarus” device, a form of radio transmitter, was designed by a researcher at security software maker Trend Micro ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has invested in San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing service Getaround Inc. through its Mirai Creation Investment Limited Partnership, in a Series C round believed to be $10 million. Founded in 2009, the company calls itself an “on-demand carsharing community” that allows users to “share” their cars to other users who are able to ...

Shares in enterprise Software as a Service startup Blackline Inc. surged on the Nasdaq Friday in another sign of the markets growing thirst for tech initial public offerings. Offering shares at $17 each, higher than an initial price guidance of $13 to $15 a share, Blackline closed its first day of trading up 39 percent, to ...

A man involved in the infamous “celebgate/fappening” hacking scandal in 2014 that resulted in private images of celebrities appearing online has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Ryan Collins, 36, from Pennsylvania had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information. Collins stood accused of obtaining access ...

LinkedIn Corp. beat market expectations Thursday with its third-quarter financials in what may be its last published figures before being acquired by Microsoft Corp. Revenue in the third quarter came in at $960 million, up 23 percent over the same quarter in 2015 and $1 million over a predicted figure of $959 million. Earnings per share ...

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has announced plans to acquire rival firm NXP Semiconductors N.V. in an all-cash deal for $110 a share, totaling $47 billion, the company announced Thursday. Founded in 2006 and based in the Netherlands, NXP is best known for co-inventing near-field communications, the technology that enables wireless payment services such as Apple Pay. The ...

A few weeks after announcing that it was no longer going to make phones, BlackBerry Ltd. launched its last official phone Wednesday, aimed squarely at corporate customers. The unimaginatively named DTEK60 is an Android-powered device that includes a 5.5-inch QuadHD display with 2,560 x 1,440-pixel resolution powered by a Snapdragon 820 processor. Like many Android phones in 2016, ...

It turns out that making electric, semi-autonomous vehicles can be profitable after all: Tesla Motors Inc. Wednesday posted an unexpected profit in the third quarter. The electric vehicle and battery company managed $2.15 billion in revenues for the quarter, up 145 percent over the same quarter in 2015, on a profit of $21.9 million, or 14 ...

Bitcoin payments startup BitPay Inc. has announced a new secure bitcoin wallet that uses Intel Corp.’s security extension hardware to safeguard security. An updated version of BitPay’s original bitcoin wallet called Copay, the new release integrates with Intel’s Software Guard Extensions which are built into Intel’s seventh-generation Core processors as standard and offers hardware-level protection ...

A massive distributed denial of service attack that brought down leading sites across the world on Friday is being attributed to script kiddies, or people who use existing scripts or programs, who wanted to take down the PlayStation Network, a report published Tuesday claims. The attack, which targeted domain name server hosting provider Dynamic Network Services ...