A massive database containing the personal information of a staggering 191 million Americans has been discovered online, although no one quite knows how it got there or where it came from. Discovered by security researcher Chris Vickery, the database appears to be a list compiled on people who vote and includes the voter’s full name ...

The Bitcoin space came of age in 2015, as much of the sometimes dubious early players dropped by the wayside and serious money entered the space for the first time as markets recognized the value Bitcoin startups offer. You could say Bitcoin has moved on from being in its tweens into a teenager, and while ...

Blockchain records management startup Factom, Inc. has hit a roadblock in its attempt to see its Land Registry Tool being put to use in an actual full country. The company announced a deal with the government of Honduras back in May that would have seen the country implement Factom’s technology to track who owns what within ...

Cloud communications company Twilio, Inc. may be one step closer to an initial public offering with a report on Christmas Day that it might be happening … again. According to The Wall Street Journal quoting the proverbial “people familiar with the matter,” Twilio has filed confidentially for its IPO and is working with banks, including Goldman ...

China’s legislature passed a new law on Sunday that would force all tech companies to hand over their encryption keys to the government, irrespective of whether they were local or foreign players. The new law, said to be by government newsagency Xinhuanet as representing “a development in the right direction for a country that has ...

Cloud-based email management firm Mimecast, Inc. has issued a warning to organizations of an increased prevalence of targeted whaling attacks. Whaling attacks are a type of phishing attack that involves the use of email sent from spoofed or similar-sounding domain names and appears to be sent from someone senior in a given company, such as the ...

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. has raised a staggering $880 million on a $20 billion valuation in a round that included Morgan Stanley and San Francisco Sentry, according to a regulatory filing the company made Wednesday. The news comes following a report that the company was raising the round in June, followed by ...

Beatlemania. extreme enthusiasm for the Beatles, as manifested in the frenzied behavior of their fans in the 1960s. Get your fashionable miniskirts and knee high boots on while screaming loudly because after a near eternal absence legandary British band The Beatles has finally come to streaming music services. As of Christmas Eve, December 24 (in ...

Remembering passwords can be a complete pain, let alone a security risk, but what if there was a way to access a site without the need for one? That’s the question Google, Inc. would appear to be addressing with the tech giant now testing password free entry for sign in. The testing of the potentially ...

Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix, Inc. has filed in a S1 registration form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicating its intention to go public in 2016. The company did not indicate how many shares it was offering in the float but said it was initially looking to raise $200 million, although this ...