Facebook Inc. has patched a bug that could have allowed other parties to access data from user profiles without permission, including interests and likes. Discovered by Ron Masas, security researcher at Imperva Inc., the bug exposed Facebook search results to a cross-site request forgery attack. A CSRF attack is a type of malicious exploit of a ...

Retailer Nordstrom Inc. is the latest retailer to be affected by a data breach that exposed employee data. The company informed employees of the data theft late last week, saying that the data included social security numbers, dates of birth, checking account and routing numbers, salaries and additional information. Although it didn’t provide a specific number, ...

Microsoft Corp. today released a patch for a serious vulnerability that’s being actively exploited in the wild as well as re-releasing its troubled Windows 10 update. Delivered as part of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday release, the patch addressed CVE-2018-8589, a vulnerability in Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 versions that allowed an attacker to escalate ...

Alphabet Inc.– and Uber Technologies Inc.-backed scooter- and bike-sharing service LimeBike Inc. is expanding its services to four wheels in the form of a car-sharing service. Bloomberg reported today that Lime will launch a car-sharing service in Seattle this week. The service is starting with 50 Lime-branded Fiat 500 vehicles, with the company planning to expand its ...

Autonomous indoor inspection drone startup Flyability SA today said it has raised $11 million in new funding to increase production, expand its partner network and hike increase research and development. The Series B round was co-led by ETF Partners and Swisscom Ventures with Dow Chemical Co., GoBeyond and MKS (Switzerland) SA also participating. Founded in 2014, ...

Scammers pretending to be Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk have been hijacking Twitter accounts to promote bitcoin scams. Those behind the scam hijack verified accounts — those with a blue checkmark next to them — change the account name and bio to that of Musk and then promote a bitcoin giveaway that requires users ...

Demand for the latest iPhone range may be faltering as three major suppliers today issued warnings of weakening demand. As a result, shares of Apple and iPhone component makers all dropped today, triggering a bloodbath on Wall Street. The Dow Jone Industrial Average plunged 602 points, or 2.3 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 206 points, ...

Slightly over two years since going public, information technology management software firm Apptio Inc. is going private again via a $1.94 billion acquisition from private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners. The deal will see Apptio shareholders receive $38 per share, a 53 percent premium to Friday’s closing price of $24.85. According to Marketwatch Sunday, the price is below Apptio’s all-time closing ...

Apple Inc. Friday announced repair programs for two of its most popular devices launched last year, both suffering hardware faults. Top of the list is the iPhone X, the first iPhone launched without a home button in September 2017. It was discontinued two months ago. Apple’s first AMOLED and near bezelless screen suffers from “touch issues” that ...

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was forced out of Facebook Inc. for his political views, according to a new report Sunday in The Wall Street Journal. Luckey (pictured) left Facebook in March 2017 after having virtually disappeared six months earlier. When he left, it was revealed that he had made a $10,000 donation to an anti-Hillary Clinton ...