Uber Technologies Inc. is in talks to acquire Roofoods Ltd., the U.K.-based food delivery startup better known by its trading name of Deliveroo. Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the plans, claimed the talks between the two companies are only in an early stage and that an acquisition price is unknown. Founded in 2012, Deliveroo has rapidly ...

Adobe Systems Inc. today said it has acquired San Francisco-based marketing automation software firm Marketo Inc. for $4.75 billion, a week after rumors emerged the companies were in talks about a potential deal. Founded in 2006, Marketo offers a cloud-based marketing automation software solution that is designed for both growing small companies and global enterprises. Said to ...

Government Payment Service Inc., a company that offers a service called GovPayNow used by U.S. state and local governments, exposed 14 million records online. Discovered by security researcher Brian Krebs and revealed Tuesday, the breach included names, addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of the payer’s credit card going back six years. It ...

Confirming a well-documented trend this year, a new report from the Cyber Threat Alliance finds that illicit cryptocurrency mining has surged this year. The report, released today, analyzed customer data from alliance members and found that compared with 2017, illicit cryptomining, the process whereby hackers obtain access to a computer or network to install mining software, has ...

Google LLC now has the best-selling smart home speaker on the market as its Google Home Mini topped sales charts in the second quarter, according to new stats from Strategy Analytics. Following a trend first indicated in the first quarter, Amazon.com Inc.’s market share continued to fall, coming in 41 percent. But its devices were ...

Online electronics retailer Newegg Inc. is the latest victim of an attack by the Magecart group, which stole credit card data used for customer payments for more than a month through Tuesday. Detailed by security firm RiskIQ Inc., the hack started Aug. 14 and involved the injection of 15 lines of code into Newegg’s payments ...

Leading content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced a new denial-of-service protection service in conjunction with information technology solutions provider US Signal Co. LLC. Claimed to deliver a powerful DDoS mitigation for network, transport and application layers, the service uses Cloudflare’s global Anycast network in conjunction with US Signal’s information security and provisioning team, ...

The Department of State is the latest U.S. government agency to be hacked, with data stolen from one of its email servers. First reported by Politico Monday, the hack was reported to employees by the department in an email Sept. 7 that stated that they had detected “activity of concern … affecting less than 1 percent ...

A report released today by the New York Attorney General’s office has found that cryptocurrency exchanges are vulnerable to market manipulation. The Virtual Markets Integrity Report tabled the findings of an investigation launched in April based on data collected from major cryptocurrency exchanges on their operations, use of bots, conflicts of interest, outages and other key issues. ...

Troubled blockchain startup Tezos has finally gone live, receiving an immediate boost for its token with support from leading cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. Tezos raised $233 million in an initial coin offering in July 2017 to support the development of “a self-amending crypto-ledger” offering a semidemocratic blockchain platform that allows users to vote on changes. The platform has ...