Co-working space provider WeWork Inc. Wednesday said it has acquired Managed by Q Inc., a subscription and on-demand office services company for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2013, Managed by Q offers a range of subscription and on-demand services that may be required in an office, ranging from cleaning and maintenance to supply replenishment and wellness services. “By removing ...

In two moves highly praised by those in the cryptocurrency and blockchain communities, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday issued guides for initial coin offerings while also issuing it’s first “no-action” letter for a company wanting to go down the ICO path. The guidelines, formally “Framework for ‘Investment Contract’ Analysis of Digital Assets” has ...

Data relating to more than 540 million Facebook users has been discovered publicly available on misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. instances. Discovered by security researchers at UpGuard Inc. and revealed Wednesday, the main data exposure came via a Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva and included Facebook user names, comments, likes, reactions, account names and more. ...

In its biggest price increase since 2017, bitcoin surged through $5,000 on Tuesday, much to the relief of long-term investors. The current bitcoin price bull market started at the end of March, with bitcoin breaking through $4,000 to hit its highest level in 2019. Sitting at $5,003.13 as of 11:20 p.m. EDT, bitcoin is now at its ...

A Taiwanese woman has been arrested after illegally attempting to enter the Mar-a-Lago Resort owned by U.S. President Donald Trump with a USB stick infected by malware. Some reports suggested that the woman, Yujing Zhang, was simply “Chinese,” but she was caught with two passports identifying her as from the Republic of China, better known in the ...

The records of about 1.3 million students and faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology have been stolen in the latest hack of an educational institution. The data accessed and stolen included the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and birthdates of current and former faculty, students, staff and student applicants. According to a press release Tuesday ...

Arizona Beverages USA LLC, a large U.S. maker of iced tea, suffered downtime in February from a ransomware attack. The attack, that involved the use of a form of the IEncrypt ransomware, is said to have hit the company in late March and resulted in more than 200 servers and networked computers displaying the same ...

Application security management startup Sqreen SAS early today said has raised $14 million in new funding, its first major round since it was founded in 2015. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners and Y Combinator and included previous investors Alven Capital and Point Nine. Greylock partner Sarah Guo is joining the company’s board. Co-founded ...

Canadian police have seized luxury vehicles and frozen bank accounts linked to blockchain services firm Vanbex Group Inc. over its involvement in an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering. Vanbex, which has been around since 2013 and offers various blockchain-related services, is in strife over its offering of Etherparty tokens, also known as FUEL tokens, in ...

Earl Enterprises Inc., the company behind Planet Hollywood and other restaurant chains, has admitted that customer data, including credit card details, has been stolen from its point of sales network. Detailed first by KrebsOnSecurity Friday, the hack was discovered after a database with credit and debit card details belonging to the company’s customers was found in ...