Tesla Inc.’s safety woes continued to mount Monday as the Chinese ride-hailing giant and growing autonomous vehicle competitor Didi Chuxing Technology Co. was reported to have been given permission to test its self-driving cars on American roads. In the latest drama for Tesla, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company executives rejected a safety proposal by ...

In a surprising turn of events, President Trump has intervened in a trade dispute that resulted in the shutdown of Chinese electronics company ZTE Corp., saying on Twitter Sunday that he was working with President Xi to get the company “back into business, fast.” ZTE announced Wednesday that it had ceased major operating activities following a seven-year ban that forbids ...

Restaurant chain owner Brinker International Inc. advised Saturday that customer data may have been stolen from its Tex-Mex cuisine chain Chili’s in what looks like another case of retail point-of-sale hacking. The incident was described as a “notice of unauthorized access” in a media release. The company said it had learned that “payment card information of ...

A German online bank is offering a loan service with a difference: international loans that are transferred using bitcoin. Founded in 2013, Bitbond is using the cryptocurrency as an alternative to SWIFT international payment network. The company’s founder, Radoslav Albrecht, argues that it’s both considerably cheaper and faster to use bitcoin to exchange funds across borders. “Traditional money transfers ...

In a day that will live in cybersecurity infamy, the WannaCry ransomware was first detected in the wild on this day in 2017. The attack would go on to cause an estimated $8 billion in damages and bring ransomware attacks to the forefront of media and government attention. The attack, discovered within the network of ...

Users of smartphones made by LG Electronics Inc. are being encouraged to update their phones quickly following the disclosure of two security vulnerabilities in the default keyboard. First detailed by Check Point Security Software Technologies Ltd. in a report Tuesday, the two vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to remotely execute code with elevated privileges on LG ...

Cyberinsurance company At-Bay Inc. has raised $13 million in new funding to accelerate development of its cybersecurity monitoring service and its insurance products, pitched as providing “insurance for the digital age.” The round was led by Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures, Yoni Cheifetz of Lightspeed Venture Partners with Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., with ...

KnowBe4 Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick has demonstrated a proof-of-concept attack that uses social engineering and fake domain names to bypass two-factor authentication security, a disturbing turn of events for a commonly used form of security. The attack targets accounts with a phishing attack, which attempts to trick users into clicking on a website address ...

Tesla Inc.’s run of bad news is continuing as the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation into a Model S that crashed Tuesday and caught fire in Florida, killing two teenagers. The crash occurred about six weeks after a Model X crashed into a concrete barrier on Highway 101 in Mountain View. Although there’s no suggestion that ...

In an age when tech companies are obsessed with diversity, all operating system makers, nearly without fail, have delivered the ultimate equal-opportunity error. In particular, they introduced a serious vulnerability that is being described by many as a “misunderstanding” of Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. documentation. The vulnerability, introduced by way of an update that so ...