The Cyber Threat Alliance, an organization founded by leading tech companies in 2014 to drive a coordinated industry effort against cyberadversaries, has appointed a former Obama Administration official as its first appointed president and added two new prominent corporate members. Michael Daniel takes on the position of president after having spent four and a half years ...

While self-driving cars and autonomous drones are still grabbing plenty of headlines so far this year, the same technology now looks set to revolutionize the global shipping industry — at least if U.K. engineering giant Rolls-Royce Ltd. has its way. Best known for its cars and airplane engines, Rolls-Royce has announced plans to release its ...

Bitcoin markets remain volatile today following the decision by a number of leading exchanges in China to suspend all withdrawals of the currency pending improved protections against money laundering and other illegal activity. The move to suspend bitcoin withdrawals was made on Thursday by BTC China, OKCoin and Huobi.com, the three largest exchanges in the country. ...

A serious content-injection vulnerability in the popular WordPress content management system, first discovered at the end of January, has been used to deface more than 1.9 million sites. Seattle-based security firm WordFence Inc., which described it as “one of the worst WordPress related vulnerabilities to emerge in some time,” said in a blog post that ...

Hacking tools believed to have originated from government-focused Israeli spyware company NSO Group have been used to target health activists who support a soda tax in Mexico, according to a report published Friday. The New York Times wrote that the tools, which are exclusively sold only to governments, targeted researchers and activists between 2014 and 2016, including Simon ...

A new survey has cast serious doubts on whether Snap Inc., the maker of the Snapchat messaging app, has much chance of remaining successful in the future. The survey, undertaken by marketing firm Fluent, found that nearly half of all American adults think that Snapchat is “just a fad,” while 62 percent of existing Snapchat users believe ...

Two lawmakers representing both sides of the political spectrum have launched a Congressional Blockchain Caucus dedicated to the advancement of sound public policy toward blockchain-based technologies and digital currencies. First proposed by Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) in September, the bipartisan caucus will seek to educate people and provide research to help policymakers implement smart regulatory ...

Cloud security startup Evident.io Inc. has raised $22 million Series C in a round led by GV, the former Google Ventures, and joined by existing investors Bain Capital, True Ventures and Venrock. Founded in 2013, Evident.io offers cloud security and compliance automation that endeavors to deliver the fastest security intelligence available to cloud engineers. The company’s ...

A French man is suing Uber Technologies Inc. for about $48 million over a fault in its mobile app that allowed his wife to find out he was cheating on him, ultimately leading to a divorce. The unnamed man, identified only as hailing from Côte d’Azur in the south of France, alleges that a problem with Uber’s ...

As the tax season looms, the Internal Revenue Service is warning employers to be on the lookout for an evolved W-2 email phishing scam that is targeting companies as well as school districts, tribal organizations and nonprofits. The W-2, the U.S. federal tax form that employers send to employees and the IRS,  reports not only annual wages ...