Australia search and language data services firm Appen Ltd. today said it has acquired rival Figure Eight Inc. for $175 million upfront with an additional earn-out payment of up to $125 million in 2020 based on performance. To fund the deal, Appen has announced an AU$285 million ($200 million) fundraising targeted at institutional investors, according to The Australian ...

Citrix Systems Inc. informed customers on Friday that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation told the company that hackers gained access to its systems and stole data. While not providing much in the way of details, Citrix said that it had taken “action to contain this incident,” including launching a forensic investigation as well as ...

Facebook Inc. filed a lawsuit Friday against two Ukrainian developers who allegedly created Facebook apps and browser extensions that scrapped user data and injected third-party ads. The accused, Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov, are claimed to have promoted quizzes on Facebook, but when users clicked through, they were taken to an external site. On those sites, ...

Security researchers have discovered a publicly accessible database belonging to an email validation firm that contained a nearly 800 million email addresses along with other data. The discovery was made by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia Feb. 25 on a misconfigured MongoDB database but only made public today. The database in question belongs to a ...

While general cryptocurrency markets have remained sluggish this year, one cryptocurrency is bucking the trend, doubling in price over the last month. That would be Binance Coin, a coin originally designed to facilitate trades on Binance Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, but notably also freely tradable on other exchanges. Binance Coin is ...

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government claiming that the ban against its equipment being offered for government contracts in unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Plano, Texas argues specifically that Section 889 of the 2019 U.S. National Defense Authorization Act that prohibits government agencies from ...

Social trading and investment marketplace eToro today launched a cryptocurrency trading service in the U.S. The new service, initially available in 32 states, will allow eToro users to trade 14 different cryptocurrencies as well as provide cryptocurrency storage wallets and trading data. At the outset, the cryptocurrencies supported are bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple XRP, ...

A lack of skilled cybersecurity professions may soon lead to a crisis in enterprise security, according to a report released today by Tripwire Inc. The finding comes in a survey of 336 information technology security technology professionals undertaken by Dimension Research in February. Some 80 percent of respondents say it’s becoming more difficult to find skilled cybersecurity professionals. Highlighting the ...

Google LLC has revealed that a patch issued to its Chrome browser March 1 addressed a zero-day exploit that was actively being exploited in the wild. A zero-day is a vulnerability, usually unknown by a software vendor, that gives hackers a high level of access thanks to a critical flaw. For example, all Apple Mac ...

A new report from Microsoft Corp. claims that Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over the past two years. Allegedly state-sponsored, that is using hackers employed by the Iranian government, the hacking campaign is said to have targeted thousands of people in more than 200 companies. They stole corporate secrets ...