Top-secret data on military personnel and contractors has been exposed online in another case of a company misconfiguring Amazon Web Service Inc. cloud storage service. The latest AWS bungle comes from a private military contractor from North Carolina called TigerSwan. It involves resumes and other personal details for job applicants, including information classified “Top Secret,” being left ...

A critical security flaw in Apache Struts2, the open-source software framework installed on web servers to host applications written in the Java programming language, exposes web services to hacking, according to newly published research. The flaw, discovered by security firm lgtm.com, allows hackers to run code remotely on servers that run Java applications that utilize REST, a plugin that’s found ...

Aiming to extend further into cloud computing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said it has acquired Boston, Massachusetts-based cloud solutions provider Cloud Technology Partners Inc. Founded in 2010, CTP assists companies in planning, designing and building cloud solutions for applications and infrastructures that aim to reduce information technology costs and streamline operations. Supporting Amazon Web Services, Google ...

Despite fears that missile and nuclear tests by North Korea may spark a new world war, Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk is once again warning that a new global conflict will be caused not by Kim Jong-un but instead by artificial intelligence. Musk, who most recently stated a strong dislike for killer robots, took to ...

As cryptocurrencies plummet thanks to news that China has banned initial coin offerings, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. heiress Paris Hilton has jumped on the bandwagon. The Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. heiress this weekend endorsed an ICO by LydianCoin Pte. Ltd., a company that describes itself as the “first A.I. big data marketing cloud for blockchain.” The ...

In an unusual move for the venture firm, famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, along with IDG Capital, have invested $50 million in Chinese bitcoin hardware maker and miner Bitmain Technologies Inc. Founded in 2013, Bitmain manufactures its own bitcoin mining equipment, and it’s also the world’s largest bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining involves ...

Regulators in China have banned all initial public coin offerings pending a review and the possible introduction of regulations to control the booming market. News that China was considering banning ICOs emerged last week when it was reported that China’s Securities and Futures Commission, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and other regulators had met and were considering ...

The personal details of some 6 million Instagram users are being offered for sale online as employees of the app maker have been accused of selling account verification. Revelations that user details from Instagram had been hacked emerged last week, as the Facebook Inc.-owned app maker confirmed that hackers had gained access to user accounts through Instagram’s application program interface. That ...

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has revealed a new chipset and reference design that moves the mobile chip giant into self-driving cars. The chipset, called the 9150 C-V2X (short for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything), facilitates vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Along with Qualcomm‘s C-V2X Reference Design, it uses two different methods to exchange messages between vehicles and infrastructure The direct mode allows a vehicle to communicate with other ...

Facial recognition may be the future of digital payments. A trial being run by Ant Financial Services Group, the financial payments arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., and Yum China will allow customers to use their face to pay for their meal. The system, dubbed “Smile to Pay,” has gone into testing at KPRO, a KFC concept outlet in ...