Fast-fashion chain Forever 21 Inc. is the latest victim of hacking. The company today warned customers that it has detected a data breach within its point of sale network. Details on how the hack took place were scant, but Forever 21 claimed that customer payment card information was only compromised between March and October at ...

Mobile payment company Square Inc. may be entering the bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets. The company is conducting a trial of a program that allows select customers to buy and sell bitcoin via its Cash app. The service, offered through an app provided by the company that allows merchants to process credit card transactions without needing a cash register ...

Cloud security and data solutions firm Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced new cloud features for its main firewall products. The new public cloud functions, which will be available in both the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda NextGen Firewall, provide automated security controls that aim to deliver customers an easy migration path for moving their data securely to ...

Twitter Inc. is attempting to appeal to developers again with a new “premium” application programming interface that gives outside companies access to additional Twitter data at a lower cost point. The new service, “Twitter premium APIs,” is being pitched as bringing “reliability and stability of our enterprise APIs to our broader developer ecosystem for the first time,” according ...

Cloud communications platform provider SendGrid Inc., best known for its email distribution services, saw its shares rise in early trading by 16 percent from their initial offering price as the company sold shares publicly for the first time today. The stock ended the day at an even $18 a share, up almost 13 percent. Listing ...

Microsoft Corp. today released 53 software patches in its November 2017 Patch Tuesday, the most critical dealing with issues in its Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers. The patches covered the full range of Microsoft products, including Windows OS, Microsoft Office Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, ASP.NET Core, .NET Core and the Chackra Core browser engine, but in contrast ...

The next generation of Apple Inc.’s iPhone will have lasers — literally, at least according to a newly published report. Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the plan, wrote that Apple is designing a rear-facing 3-D sensor system for its next-generation iPhone due to be released in 2019. According to the report, the 3D sensor will employ ...

The debacle that saw hundreds of millions worth of Ethereum cryptocurrency left frozen in wallets provided by Parity continues, juiced by a new accusation that the alleged accident may have been the result of hacking. Parity wallets were frozen last week after it was alleged that a security vulnerability was “accidentally” triggered, causing a library ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced a new method for discovering software security vulnerabilities that combines machine learning and deep neural networks to use past experience in order to identify overlooked issues better. Dubbed “neural fuzzing,” the method takes traditional fuzz testing, a quality assurance technique used to discover coding errors and security loopholes in software, operating systems ...

Threat intelligence startup ThreatQuotient Inc. today said it has raised $30 in new funding in a late-stage round to expand operations across the board. The Series C funding was led by Adam Street Partners that included Cisco Investments, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Silicon Valley Bank. As part of the deal, Adam Street Partners’ Fred ...