Uber Technologies Inc. is shutting down its self-driving truck division two years after spending $680 million to acquire Otto, the company behind the technology, in 2016. First reported by TechCrunch, the decision is being pitched by Uber as the company focusing on the development of self-driving cars and a consolidation of its development efforts. The self-driving ...

Cybersecurity software maker Imperva Inc. today said it has acquired runtime application self-protection security startup Prevoty Inc. for $140 million. Founded in 2013, Los Angeles-based Prevoty offers RASP security that is said to enable enterprises to automatically protect their applications in production. Its web application security-as-a-service is claimed to pioneer a new approach to securing web ...

Identity theft protection company LifeLock, a division of Symantec Corp., has exposed the email addresses of its customers in what could shape up to be one of the most ironic data exposure fails of all time. The exposure occurred because of a flaw in the script LifeLock was using to allow customers to unsubscribe from ...

While headlines were dominated by an unprecedented fall in the stock price of Facebook Inc. today, it wasn’t all doom and gloom on Wall Street as three companies surged on their public debuts. Leading the initial public offerings, network security firm Tenable Inc. hit the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol TENB at $33 per share, $10 higher ...

Lenovo Group Ltd. today gained the distinction of being first to market with an Android Things-power device with its Lenovo Smart Display. Selling at a recommended retail price of $199 for an eight-inch model or $249 for the 10-inch — $199 for the 10-inch model for Costco members — the Lenovo Smart Display brings the good ...

Security firm Core Security SDI Corp. and its SecureAuth division today published an advisory warning that they’ve discovered a serious vulnerability in SoftNAS Inc.‘s cloud data management platform that allows unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated permissions. SoftNAS Cloud offers enterprise network-attached storage administration capabilities in cloud environments with support for leading providers, including Amazon ...

Satellite protection and mapping startup LeoLabs Inc. today said it has raised $10 million in new funding to expand its network of next-generation radars for tracking small debris and satellites in low Earth orbit. The Series B round, its latest funding since it raised $4 million in February 2017, was led by WERU Investment and Airbus Ventures ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Wednesday issued a warning to enterprises that hackers are actively targeting enterprise resource planning systems designed by Oracle Corp. and SAP SE. The risk of attacks were highlighted in an alert published by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team based on a report by Digital Shadows Ltd. and Onapsis Inc. The ...

Coinbase Inc. has cleared its employees of insider trading after concerns were raised about a rise in the price of Bitcoin Cash prior to its support by Coinbase in December. Bitcoin Cash, a fork of the better-known bitcoin that uses the original bitcoin blockchain ledger, debuted in August and was embraced by some as a ...

GlaxoSmithKline plc is the latest investor in genetic-testing company 23andme Inc., putting $300 million into the company in return for a four-year partnership that will use its genetic data to develop new drugs. Once a darling of Silicon Valley thanks to developing the genetic testing from home market, the company clashed with the Food & ...