In a withering takedown of one of the most popular enterprise security applications firms, a researcher from Google, Inc.’s Project Zero security team has exposed critical flaws across a range of products from Symantec, Inc., including Norton Anti-Virus. The exposure of the flaws came from Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy who described the flaws as being ...

A new law proposed in China would extend consumer protections usually associated with physical assets to virtual properties, including Bitcoin for the first time. The draft law, a proposed new Civil Code General Provision, is said to have been created to keep up with a changing global economic landscape and would treat Bitcoin and other ...

San Francisco-based Bitcoin exchange Kraken (Payward, Inc.) has acquired Dutch Bitcoin exchange CleverCoin B.V. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Founded in 2013, CleverCoin aimed to help fintech companies in Europe by providing Bitcoin services via a platform “that makes trading Bitcoins accessible for everyone.” The company provides payment options through SEPA, credit ...

Proving that chatbots can actually be useful in real life, an automated lawyer chatbot has successfully challenged 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York. DoNotPay uses artificial intelligence to discuss the circumstances of the parking ticket with those who have received one, asking questions such as if there were clearly visible parking signs and ...

Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, Inc. is reported to be looking to raise even more money less than 2 weeks after it took $1 billion in debt financing. According to The New York Times quoting people familiar with the matter, the new round would be raised on a $30 billion valuation, meaning Airbnb has tripled its ...

What if you were to discover that the face of Big Brother in 2016, CCTV cameras, were under the control of hackers and were being used to bring down websites in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks? That Orwellian nightmare is actually now true, with a security firm discovering a network of over 25,000 CCTV ...

The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced the abolition of its PIN tool due to the platform being hacked. Under the now abolished electronic filing PIN tool (e-File PIN), people dealing with the IRS were able to use a PIN number to access services on IRS.gov or by toll-free phone call. The  agency ...

Google has updated the satellite imagery it uses in Google Maps to provide users with a more superior view of Earth from above. The new imagery comes from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite, and combined with new processing techniques not only provides sharper images than before, but cloud-free imagery as well by stitching together millions of ...

Ridesharing startup and Uber, Inc. competitor Lyft, Inc. may be looking to sell itself, with a report Monday claiming the company has hired a boutique investment bank known for helping tech companies find a buyer. According to The Wall Street Journal, Lyft has hired Qatalyst Partners LP. Further, Qatalyst Founder Frank Quattrone has been contacting companies ...

If you’re not American and are visiting the United States soon you may need to provide more than a visa in your passport, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking the power to allow U.S. Customs officials to ask foreign visitors to provide their Facebook and Twitter account names. Under the proposal, Customs and ...