Apple Inc. might be about to join the smart home assistant market with a report published Monday suggesting that it could announce a product to rival Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo as soon as June. The news that Apple is moving close to releasing an Echo competitor came via way of an internal research note published by the ...

Intel Corp. has issued a patch for a security vulnerability that allowed remote code execution in all of its chips manufactured from 2008 on. The vulnerability in its chips from those code-named Nahalem to today’s Kaby Lake, stems from a flaw in Intel Active Management Technology, Intel Small Business Technology and Intel Standard Manageability firmware versions 6 ...

The 32-year-old wife of a Brazilian “bitcoin businessman” has been rescued by local police after she was grabbed by kidnappers who demanded a ransom be paid in bitcoin. According to local reports (link in Portuguese), the woman was kidnapped Wednesday in the Brazilian capital of Sao Paulo after she dropped her daughter at school. The kidnappers subsequently contacted ...

An internal document confirmed as being real by Facebook Inc. is alleged to show that the social networking giant is exploiting young people as young as 14 in Australia by allowing advertisers to target them when they are at their most vulnerable. Obtained by The Australian, the 23-page Facebook document, dated 2017 and marked “Confidential: ...

A newly discovered form of malware that targets users of Apple Inc. Mac computers can intercept and gain complete access to all victim communication, including encrypted traffic. Called OSX/Dok and first discovered by security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the malware is spread by an email phishing campaign that pretends to come from government ...

Business process management firm Appian Corp. is joining the rush to the stock market by enterprise software companies, announcing Friday that it has filed for an initial public offering. According to the S-1 filing, Appian is seeking an IPO of common stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “APPN.” The company did not disclose how ...

Big data pioneer Cloudera Inc. saw its stock pop about 20 percent today as it sold shares to the public for the first time. The nine-year-old company, which sells software for analyzing and storage huge amounts of data, saw shares rise on the New York Stock Exchange from an initial offering price of $15 to ...

Despite topping earning estimates in its latest quarter, enterprise collaboration software maker Atlassian Corp. Plc. is having a bad week. The company was forced to deal with a second serious security issue Thursday after it revealed Monday that its group chat platform HipChat had been hacked. The latest problem comes from the company’s Confluence team collaboration ...

Cyberespionage and ransomware attacks are increasing, though the forms of attack vary widely between different industries. That’s according to Verizon Communication Inc.’s latest annual Data Breach Investigations Report. Data collected for the report, which covered 2016, found that financial and insurance companies suffered six times more breaches from web application attacks versus those in the information ...

Apple Inc.’s on-again, off-again self-driving car project has finally hit the ground running. A test vehicle from the iPhone maker was spotted on a Silicon Valley road earlier this week. The vehicle, a white Lexus RX450h SUV, emerged from an Apple facility this week and was kitted out with an array of sensors, according to Bloomberg. From the photo, the Lexus ...