The maker of an Internet of Things garage door opener is gaining attention for all the wrong reasons after he disabled the installation of a customer who had left a negative review. Denis Grisak founded a company called SoftComplex that launched Garadget, an IoT device that allows users to control their garage doors remotely, following ...

A new report from researchers from the newly independent security firm McAfee LLC has found that Mac malware isn’t simply on the rise but skyrocketed 744 percent in 2016. The report found that most of the 460,000 forms of Mac malware McAfee detected were adware, or software that exposes users to ads, with growth in the category ...

Ride-hailing startup and Uber Technologies Inc. rival Lyft Inc. has raised $500 million in a new round, according to unconfirmed reports published Thursday. The New York Times claimed the round was raised at a valuation of $6.9 billion, while CNBC put the valuation at $7.5 billion. Lyft last raised money in January 2016 with a $500 million investment ...

A vulnerability in Wi-Fi chipsets manufactured by Broadcom Ltd. and used in Android and iOS devices allows attackers to gain easy access to the devices, according to newly published research. Details of the vulnerability, first published by Google’s Project Zero security team member Gal Beniamini, specify that a remote-code execution vulnerability lies in Broadcom’s Wi-Fi stack that ...

Following a move by the Japanese government to recognize bitcoin as a legal payment method, hundreds of thousands of retail outlets in the country look set to allow the use of the cryptocurrency as a payment option. Two major Japanese retailers have signed deals to accept bitcoin. Electronics retailer Bic Camera Inc. announced that its outlets will start ...

A Canadian man accused of being part of a Russian group that infamously hacked Yahoo Inc. in 2014 has made his first appearance in court to apply for bail prior to his extradition hearing. Karim Baratov, 22, was one of four people indicted U.S. Department of Justice in March, is accused of working for alleged Russian intelligence ...

A study released this week by researchers at Virginia Tech has found that not only do Android apps leak data but they also mine smartphone users’ data by secretly colluding with each other. The study, described as the “first ever large-scale and systematic study of exactly how the trusty apps on Android phones are able to talk to ...

Facebook Inc. is upping its efforts to challenge Slack Technologies Inc. in team collaboration by launching a new free version of its Workplace service. Workplace originally launched in October, offering an intra-office communication platform that mixes some of Facebook’s most popular social features with tools designed specifically for the workplace. But it was strictly a paid offering that ...

IBM Corp. has upped the ante for its cloud hosting services, announcing that it is the first major cloud provider to make Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla P100 graphics processing unit available globally. The rollout of the Tesla P100 GPUs brings Nvidia’s acceleration technology together with IBM’s cloud platform to allow businesses to more quickly and efficiently ...

VMware is exiting the hybrid cloud hosting business as the company sells its long-struggling vCloud Air division to French hosting company OVH for an undisclosed price. Introduced at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas in 2008 with the hybrid service following in 2013, vCloud Air was pitched as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud hosting offering that aimed ...