Snap Inc. is the latest company set to face the ghost of Christmas past in a court of law after BlackBerry Ltd. sued the millennial messaging service for patent infringement in its mobile app. Building on its lawsuit against Facebook Inc. last month, BlackBerry is accusing Snap of infringing on its patented messaging technology, specifically six patents ...

A new report from McAfee Inc. details a critical skills shortage among cybersecurity professionals but suggests one way out may be hiring gamers to do the jobs. The “Winning the Game” report released early Tuesday investigated key challenges facing information technology security organizations in terms of threats, technology investment and skills required to win the fight ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is continuing its crackdown on illegal initial coin offerings, taking action against another ICO, this one promoted by former World Heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. Sohrab “Sam” Sharma and Robert Farkas, co-founders of a company called Centra Tech Inc., have been charged by the SEC and subsequently arrested by local authorities ...

Despite ongoing market volatility, the market for tech initial public offerings continues to drive full steam ahead. Music streaming startup Spotify Technologies SA set to go public Tuesday, while Pluralsight LLC, a Utah-based technology education company, filed its IPO paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Monday. On Tuesday, the long-awaited Spotify public offering won’t ...

Apple Inc. is designing its own central processing unit chips to replace Intel Corp. chips in its Mac computers as soon as 2020, according to a report published Monday. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the plans, said the initiative, code-named Kalamata, is still in the early developmental stages. It’s part of an overall strategy by Apple to make all ...

Email marketing service MailChimp is the latest company to ban cryptocurrency-related services in what could be a more serious blow to the industry than those already imposed by social networks. MailChimp has long been one of the most popular providers of automated email response and list management services, used by millions of e-commerce sites, companies ...

Upto 5 million customers of Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord & Taylor may have had their credit data stolen after a cybercrime syndicate was found to be offering to sell the details. Discovered by Gemini Data and announced today, the theft of the data is believed to have begun in May 2017 and may ...

Cloudflare Inc. today launched a free consumer-focused DNS service that it promises will deliver users a quicker and more private internet experience. The service, located at the web address https://1.1.1.1, acts as a DNS resolver, a middle point of sorts that connects a website to an IP address, figuring out where web services are hosted ...

The price of bitcoin plunged below $7,000 Thursday as reports discussed the cryptocurrency passing a so-called “Death Cross,” a statistical estimate of longer-term trends. Bitcoin has been mostly stagnant in March as many investors sat on it waiting to see where it may go. Despite fanboys such as Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey ...

Higher-education institutions are the new battleground for cryptomining-related hacking, according to a newly published report from security firm Vectra Networks Inc. A full 60 percent of all cryptomining software detections occurred in college and university networks, followed well behind by entertainment and leisure on 6 percent, financial services and technology at 3 percent each and healthcare ...