The U.K. government has turned its attention to cryptocurrencies in a process that seems likely to put pressure on the fledgling market. The cryptocurrency task force, announced by U.K. Finance Minister Philip Hammond Thursday, is said to have been established to help the country to manage the risks around cryptoassets as well as harnessing the potential benefits ...

A new report from Symantec Corp. has confirmed what was already anecdotally well-known: Cryptojacking, the process of hijacking computers to mine cryptocurrency, surged in the last quarter of 2017 as the price of bitcoin shot up. The report found that cryptojacking attacks made up 24 percent of all online attacks in December and 16 percent of online attacks ...

Atlanta is the latest victim of a broad-scale ransomware attack that knocked out computer networks across the city. The attack was described in a press conference by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as “outages in various internal and external customer facing applications,” including payment systems and court-related systems. The mayor went on to say that the city was ...

Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has long been known as a cryptocurrency fanboy, but in an interview with The Times of London he said bitcoin will be the sole global currency within 10 years. “The world ultimately will have a single currency, the internet will have a single currency. I ...

Matillion Ltd. today said it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand the reach of its cloud data integration software. Founded in 2011 and based in Manchester in the U.K., Matillion offers so-called extract/transform/load or ETL services for cloud data warehouses Amazon Redshift, Snowflake Computing Inc. and Google BigQuery. ETL refers to the three ...

In a positive sign, the number of blacklisted apps that serve up customers adware, malware and other nefarious activities dropped in the fourth quarter. But according to a new report, but despite its best efforts Google LLC’s Play store still remains the most common distribution point for these apps. The Q4 2017 Mobile Threat Landscape Report ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today confirmed vulnerabilities first disclosed by Israeli security firm CTS Labs last week and has promised that a fix is on its way. The vulnerabilities, found in AMD’s Epyc secure processor and the Ryzen chipset, could allow attackers to take control of systems running on these chipsets, access secure data and even ...

Artificial intelligence sales solutions startup Clari Inc. has raised $35 million in new funding in a late-stage round. The valuation on the Series C round, led by Tenaya Capital that included Thomvest Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Northgate Capital, wasn’t disclosed. But TechCrunch reported that it was an “up” round and that it’s ...

Google LLC is working on a blockchain-based transactions platform for its cloud service, according to an unconfirmed report published Wednesday. Bloomberg, quoting “people familiar with the situation,” claimed that the as-yet-named blockchain solution is being designed by the search giant to both support its cloud business and head off competition from emerging startups. The blockchain Google ...

CrypoKitties, the Ethereum blockchain-based kitten breeding and trading game that rose to prominence in late November, will become its own company with the assistance of $12 million in funding announced today, led by prominent venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. Launched Nov. 28, CryptoKitties allows players buy, sell and breed unique cartoon kittens with ...