A vulnerability in Nvidia Corp.’s Tegra X-1 chips used by the Nintendo Switch, Google LLC’s Pixel C tablet and the Nvidia Shield digital media box that allows the devices to be easily hacked has been uncovered by a security researcher, but the worst part is that it may not be patchable. A proof-of-concept attack exploiting the ...

Uber Technologies Inc.’s largest global rival, China’s Didi Chuxing Technology Co., has finally started its American expansion, opening up shop in Mexico in direct competition with Uber. The expansion into Mexico, first rumored in December, sees Didi Chuxing operating under the more simple-to-spell name of “Didi” in the city of Toluca de Lerdo. The capital city of ...

Uber Technology Inc.’s main ride-hailing rival in the Middle East, Careem Inc., has followed in its footsteps but not in a good way, as news broke Monday that a hacker had managed to steal millions of customer records. The hack, described by the company as “a cyber incident involving unauthorized access to the system we use ...

Just when you thought hacking attacks against healthcare facilities couldn’t get any worse, a new group dubbed “Orangeworm” is targeting X-ray machines and magnetic resonance imaging machines for data theft. According to Symantec, Orangeworm is planting the Kwampirs “backdoor” remote-access software on medical computers in order to steal information from healthcare providers in the U.S., ...

Bitcoin may be again using one of its nine lives. The cryptocurrency experienced a price surge following the U.S. “tax day,” the deadline given by the Internal Revenue Service for tax returns to be filed. Having bottomed out at $7,872.25 on April 17, bitcoin saw a post-tax bounce that approached $9,000 as investors seemingly returned after filing their ...

SunTrust Bank Inc. disclosed Friday that a former employee may have stolen details of as many as 1.5 million customer accounts in a case that many believe highlights the need for companies to improve internal security. According to CNBC, the former employee of the Atlanta, Georgia-based regional bank “may have” attempted to download some information on ...

A strange spam attack that spoofs senders themselves is affecting Gmail users Sunday. Google LLC itself describes it as a “small subset of users” but may be more widespread. The first indication of something strange is Gmail users receiving inbox messages that are tagged as coming from “me” with various messages, making it appear as if ...

At least 40,000 Facebook accounts have been compromised via a new form of malware distributed via a painting application. Called “StressPaint,” the application, pitched as offering to relieve stress by painting, is being spread through phishing emails and on Facebook itself, according to security firm Radware Ltd., which first identified the campaign. Recipients are led to believe they ...

Amazon Technologies Inc., a unit of Amazon.com Inc., has been awarded a patent for a streaming data marketplace that can track data in real-time and also track cryptocurrency transactions. The patent, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2014 and approved on Tuesday, describes a system to process streaming data on a large scale with ...

As many as 50,000 Minecraft players have been infected by malware that could delete the contents of their hard drive after downloading infected game skins from the official Minecraft store. The malware, discovered by security firm Avast Software s.r.o., was delivered inside the PNG file that comes with skins, a way for players to change ...