Rapid7 Inc., a cybersecurity firm based in Boston, found that an unauthorized user could shut off all the safety protocols parents had set up on the smartwatches and gain "total control."
Many of the big tech companies, including Facebook and Google, have been criticized this year for a myriad of issues, and in some cases employees have publicly opposed executive decisions.
In a Senate Hearing, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pushed the companies to let the police and other authorities access personal data that lies behind encryption on devices and technology platforms.
Regulations.gov -- normally a vast hive of U.S. regulatory activity and the portal for making comments in response -- lost its security certificate. Users attempting to visit the site received warnings from their own...
The concern is that banks need to comply with strict regulatory requirements to protect client data. But their industry is being infiltrated by competitors that aren’t necessarily subject to the same rules.
The European Union agreed its member states should adopt a “comprehensive and risk-based” approach to the security of 5G, which includes using only trustworthy parties for components critical to national security.
The group used a kind of malware called Dridex to harvest log-in credentials for financial institutions in more than 40 countries, according to the Treasury Department. Dridex, also known as Bugat and Cridex, often...
Slack Technologies Inc. gave an upbeat quarterly forecast, demonstrating the software maker’s resilient growth despite intensifying competition from Microsoft.
Federal Claims Court Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith said during a court proceeding last week that Amazon’s lawsuit argues that the Pentagon didn’t award the cloud deal to Microsoft Corp. on the basis of a fair...