Following on from a warning in March from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that cars with computer systems can be hacked, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a set of recommended cyber security guidelines for connected cars. The best practice guidelines cover two aspects of car hacking: how to best prevent an attack ...

Shares in cloud service provider Akamai Technologies Inc. rose more than 8 percent in after-hours trading Tuesday as the company reported strong growth from its security and cloud performance services. Akamai reported revenues of $584 million for its third quarter, up 6 percent from a year ago. Profits were $76 million, or 43 cents a ...

Overstock.com Inc. is moving forward with plans to launch a private blockchain-based equities exchange. The company said at a conference Monday that the exchange would be launching before the end of the year. The T0.com platform, first announced in 2014 and used by Overstock.com in a $25 million bond offering in 2015, will be a launched ...

Apple Inc. has released security updates for all its products, including iOS, macOS, Safari, Apple Watch and AppleTV to patch a range of vulnerabilities, including a number that allow for remote code execution attacks. The main vulnerability targeted by the release, known as the CoreGraphic bug (CVE-2016-4673) allows an attacker to take over an Apple ...

A Russian man arrested in the Czech Republic earlier this month has been linked to the hacking of Dropbox Inc. and Formspring along with the initial claim that he was behind the hacking of LinkedIn Corp., according to newly released indictment papers. Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, of Moscow, is facing three counts of computer intrusion, two ...

Eighty-eight bales of cotton have created history by becoming the first physical commodity to be traded and settled by banks using a blockchain-based smart contract system. The cotton bales were purchased in Texas and shipped to Qingdao, China, using the Skuchain Brackets distributed ledger in conjunction with Brighann Cotton, Wells Fargo and the Commonwealth Bank ...

Two-year-old Philippine Bitcoin startup Coins.ph has raised $5 million for its mobile-focused blockchain payment platform. The Series A round was led by the Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund that included Innovation Endeavors, Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, Wavemaker Labs, Global Brain, BeeNext and Rebright Partners. Coins’ platform provides users with access to basic financial services such as ...

Tesla Motors Inc. will prevent owners of its new self-driving cars from providing ridesharing services on Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. and will instead restrict them to using Tesla’s own yet-to-be-detailed ridesharing program. The discovery came by way of the fine print in a disclaimer about the self-driving functionality on new Model S vehicles. “Please ...

Oracle released a monster number of fixes Tuesday, delivering 253 security updates in its October “critical patch update.” The patches cover 76 Oracle product,s including databases, networking components, operating systems, applications servers, Java, and enterprise resource planning systems. According to the advisory published by Oracle, 15 of the patches are critical, with some allowing complete system compromise ...

A Russian man believed to be involved with the 2012 hacking of the now Microsoft Corp.-owned business social network LinkedIn has been arrested in the Czech Republic. Yevgeniy N., 29, was arrested Oct. 5 for undertaking “criminal hacking attacks on targets in the United States,” according to Reuters, and the arrest was undertaken with the cooperation of ...