Microsoft Corp. is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice over potential bribery and corruption allegations connected to software sales in Hungary, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. According to “people familiar with the matter” referenced in the report, the investigation is probing how Microsoft sold software to ...

The Apache Software Foundation issued an urgent patch Tuesday for a serious vulnerability in Struts 2 that allows hackers to execute remote code on servers and websites. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-11776, discovered by Semmle Ltd. security researcher Man Yue Mo, is the result of insufficient validation of untrusted user data injected into the core Struts framework. Affecting all ...

The price of bitcoin dropped Wednesday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange rejected a record nine applications for bitcoin exchange-traded funds. The decision affected applications for two bitcoin ETFs filed by ProShares, one from GraniteShares and five ETFs from Direxion. Reflecting the same concerns it previously raised when rejecting ETF applications from SolidX Bitcoin ETF, the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF and ...

A day after reports that Russian hackers have been caught targeting conservative institutions and senators, the Democratic National Committee has come out with a new claim that it has “found a suspected attempt to hack into its voter database.” The DNC was scant on providing details even to the point of not even publishing a press release. CNBC ...

Silicon Valley self-driving car startup Zoox Inc. is in need of a new chief executive officer after it ousted founder and now former CEO Tim Kentley-Klay in a somewhat bloody coup. The company, founded in 2014 and as recently as 2016 described as secretive, is not just building self-driving vehicle technology like many others in the ...

A new report from security firm tCell Inc. has found that web application attacks are still unduly high across Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure instances. The Security Report for Web Applications Q2 2018 evaluated 316 million security incidents concluding that attacks against the application are growing in volume and sophistication. As a result, ...

Video creation service Animoto Inc. has revealed a possible data breach in what is either a case of them being hacked or unduly paranoid. According to a notice sent recently to the State of California Department of Justice, Animoto said it first learned of suspicious activity on July 10 after receiving an alert of unusual ...

A recently discovered form of ransomware is being used in a highly targeted campaign that may have its roots in North Korea, according to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Called Ryuk, the ransomware was first detected in the wild in mid-August. In the days following, it infected several organizations in the U.S. Reflecting ...

Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it had shut down six domains relating to an effort by Russian state-sponsored hackers to hack conservative organizations and senators. The domains were being used as part of a phishing campaign that attempted to gain login details for sites with similar names to those being used by the hackers. Domains ...

A California man has been indicted on multiple charges in relation to him operating as a “bitcoin exchanger” between 2014 and 2016. Jacob Burrell Campos, 21, was arrested Thursday while entering the U.S. at the Mexican border. A court ordered he be held without bail on 31 charges relating to his bitcoin dealings. In an indictment ...