Russian hackers have gained access to control rooms in U.S. utility companies where they could have caused blackouts, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Citing sources from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Journal claimed Russian hackers, who allegedly work for a state-sponsored group identified as both Dragonfly and Energetic Bear, broke into supposedly ...

Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving cars are returning to the road four months after one struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, but with a twist: The vehicles will be operated in “manual” mode, that is, manually driven by a driver. “We’re starting with cars in manual mode, with a Mission Specialist sitting behind the wheel ...

A newly discovered bug in Bluetooth implementations and operating system drivers allows hackers to gain unauthorized access to a device and steal data. The vulnerability was discovered by security researchers Lior Neumann and Eli Biham from the Israel Institute of Technology and since shared by Intel Corp. and CERT. It relates to a critical cryptographic flaw that ...

There’s no shortage of stories about employees stealing company secrets, but a new study has found that the biggest risk may come from the top, with chief executive officers often presenting a larger risk when it comes to enterprise intellectual property protection. The claim comes from Code42 Inc.‘s 2018 Data Exposure Report which surveyed 1,700 security, information ...

Google LLC is embracing blockchain technology announcing two partnerships that will deliver distributed digital ledger technology to Google Cloud. The first partnership with Digital Asset Holdings LLC will see the startup’s blockchain platform and developer tools made available on the Google Cloud Platform. Although Google Cloud has previously supported blockchain technologies, the deal will see developers now having access ...

Bitcoin has hit its highest level in two months as a long-term bear run that started at the beginning of the year may have finally come to an end. While nowhere near its record highs, bitcoin was trading at $7,744.04 as of 10:30 p.m. EDT, up from $6,737.56 the same time last week and from ...

The source code for the Exobot banking trojan virus has been leaked online, putting even more Android users at risk of being targeted by the software. First offered for sale in 2016 on the darknet, a shady part of the internet reachable by special software, Exobot was originally offered by the developers as malware-as-a-service. Hackers could ...

Smart speaker and audio tech maker Sonos Inc. and internet-connected camera maker and Netgear Inc. spinoff Arlo Technologies Inc. have both issued price guidance for their initial public offerings. They’re each scheduled for July 30 on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange, respectively. Sonos said in its U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it ...

A data breach at a leading Canadian robotics company has exposed the trade secrets of a range of leading automakers and Tesla Inc. in seemingly yet-another case of misconfigured storage. The breach was discovered by security researchers at UpGuard Inc., which announced it Friday. The data was found via rsync, a common file transfer protocol used ...

Snap Inc.’s efforts to take a slice of the peer-to-peer mobile payments market has failed. The Snapchat app maker said Sunday that it will close down its little-used Snapcash feature Aug. 30. Announced back in 2014, Snapcash was pitched as a way to allow friends to send each other money instantly by simply entering a cash ...