A security researcher has detailed a serious vulnerability in the Steam gaming client that exposed users to remote code execution for more than 10 years, but the good news is that Steam has fixed the issue. Described Wednesday by Context Information Security Ltd.’s Tom Court, the vulnerability is a “heap corruption within the Steam client library.” A heap ...

Despite a bumpy year so far in the cryptocurrency market, interest in blockchain-related technologies continues to remain strong as two companies, imToken and Paxos Trust Co. LLC, both announced traditional venture capital investments Thursday. ImToken, a Hangzhou, China-based blockchain company that claims to offer the world’s largest Ethereum wallet, raised $10 million in funding from IDG Capital. The funding ...

Ticketfly, a live event tickets selling service owned by Evenbrite Inc., has been taken offline after a “cyber incident” that involved its site being hacked and customer data stolen. Billboard reported that customers to the site first noticed it had been defaced at about 9 p.m. PDT Wednesday with a picture of a man wearing a ...

Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car unit Waymo keeps speeding ahead, inking a new supply deal with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV today and holding talks with Uber Technologies Inc. about supplying autonomous vehicles. With the Fiat Chrysler deal, which comes on top of a previous supply deal for “thousands” of vehicles announced in January, Waymo placed an order ...

A Canadian man accused of being part of a Russian group that staged a massive hacking of Yahoo Inc. in 2014 has been found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail. Karim Baratov (pictured) was one of four people indicted U.S. Department of Justice in March 2017 and was accused of working for Russian ...

Kaspersky Lab has lost its lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to ban the use of its products by the U.S. government. The lawsuit pertained to an operational directive from the DHS that bans the Kaspersky software from all federal executive branch departments and agencies and “based on security risks presented by the use of Kaspersky ...

Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi today confirmed that the ride-hailing giant is on track to go public in 2019, confirming a commitment he made in August 2017. In an exclusive interview with CNBC, Khosrowshahi (pictured) said the company is well-placed going into an initial public offering, saying that “we’re in a good position in ...

Google Inc. is planning to launch a new flagship model with a notch like the iPhone X’s, according to the latest set of reports. The word comes a little over four months ahead of when the search giant will likely launch its latest phone and tablet models. The Alphabet Inc.-owned company traditionally launches the latest incarnation ...

Security researchers at IBM X-Force have uncovered a new form of banking malware that leverages a remote Microsoft SQL Server to communicate with infected machines. Dubbed MnuBot, the trojan came to the attention of the researchers because unlike typical malware that directly communicates with a command-and-control server through services such as internet relay chat or ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency order halting a fraudulent initial coin offering but only after those behind it had already managed to raise $21 million. Called “Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services” (TBIS or Titanium for short), the ICO was selling tokens to develop a “shock-proof, decentralized blockchain” platform in what has to ...