Hyatt Hotels Corp. has proven that the adage “once bitten, twice shy” is inaccurate after revealing that its payment system was hacked and customer data such as credit card details were stolen. It was the latest significant hack to target the hotel chain since its last data breach in December 2015. Hyatt fully disclosed the hack ...

U.S. consumer credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. is back in the news, once again for all the wrong reasons. The company was discovered to be serving malware to its customers in the form of spyware disguised as an Adobe Flash plugin, although it’s not entirely clear whether the company itself was responsible for the security ...

A new report on financial cybercrime has found that while financial institutions have embraced social media to engage customers, grow their business and promote offers and services, scammers are also flocking to the platforms to target potential victims. The “External Social And Digital Threats To Financial Institutions” report from security firm ZeroFOX Inc. looked at ...

Akamai Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it has acquired Nominum Inc., a Redwood City, California-based company that provides domain-name service software and applications for top telecom providers, for an undisclosed sum. Founded way back in 1999, Nominum offers an integrated suite of DNS-based applications that are claimed to “digitally transform service providers, while personalizing the online experience ...

There’s an old, justified adage about how the porn industry leads the path to widespread technology adaptation. From VHS through to DVDs, online payments and even potentially widespread use of the internet itself, porn has spurred growth in many sectors. Now, one of its biggest porn sites is using artificial intelligence, which could mean that ...

Cyanogen Inc., a company notorious for its failed attempt to bring to market an “Android killer” mobile operating system, has changed its name to Cyngn and shifted its business focus to self-driving car tech — because that’s in right now. Axios made the discovery, reporting Wednesday that the company recently received a permit to test self-driving cars ...

California is set to revise its regulations on autonomous vehicles with proposed changes that will allow vehicles without drivers or anyone in them to operate on their roads starting next year. The California Department of Motor Vehicles published the proposed changes to self-driving car regulations on Wednesday. They do include some limits, such as a new ...

Despite growing awareness of the risks presented to users, ransomware continues to be a highly profitable endeavor for nefarious actors, according to new research that finds the market for ransomware is exploding. Researchers at endpoint security firm Carbon Black Inc. found that from 2016 to 2017, there has been a staggering 26fold increase in the sale ...

Global management consulting and professional services firm Accenture PLC is the latest in a growing line of companies that have exposed private data online by erroneously configuring an Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage bucket. The data exposure was first detected by security researchers at UpGuard Inc., which said in a blog post that the company ...

A new strain of malware that targets automated teller machines running Windows 7 and Windows Vista has been detected in the wild stealing account credentials and money from unsuspecting victims. Detailed by security researchers at Kaspersky, the ATMii malware, also known as Backdoor.Win32.ATMii, is described as not being as sophisticated as similar ATM malware strains and only ...