OilRig Sends an OopsIE to Mideast Government Targets
The Iran-linked group is using a variant of the data-exfiltration OopsIE trojan to attack a Mideast government entity.
The Iran-linked group is using a variant of the data-exfiltration OopsIE trojan to attack a Mideast government entity.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
IBM has brought its Blockchain World Wire (BWW) payment network out of beta testing and officially announced it to the world. The computing services giant says that World Wire uses the Stellar blockchain to clear and settle international payments between banks in “near real-time”, via a mutually agreed digital currency. Using the new system, two…
McCarthyFinch sounds a bit like a law firm — and with good reason. The startup has developed an AI as a Service platform aimed at the legal profession. This week, it’s competing in the 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco. The company began life as a project at a leading New Zealand law firm,…
America may have created AI, but China is taking the ball and running when it comes to one of the world’s most pivotal technology innovations. That’s according to Kaifu Lee, a world-renowned AI expert who founded Sinovation, a China-U.S. fund that raised its fourth fund worth $1 billion earlier this year. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt…
Challenger bank N26 is launching a premium plan for professional accounts. N26 already had a free plan for freelancers and self-employed called N26 Business. N26 Business Black introduces the same perks as N26 Black, but for freelancers and self-employed. The new plan costs the same for regular users and business users. The company recently raised…
Never has it been so clear that the attorneys charged with enforcing the laws of the country have a complete disregard for the very laws they’re meant to enforce. As executives of Twitter and Facebook took to the floor of the Senate to testify about their companies’ response to international meddling into U.S. elections and…
D-ID, the company developing software to scramble facial recognition technologies, has signed its first customers and launched its initial product onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The culmination of an idea that was fourteen years in the making, D-ID’s technology is being sold as both a service and as an enterprise software solution on-premise for…
Hot on the heels of Nikon’s first full-frame mirrorless cameras, Canon is announcing its own: the EOS R. After releasing half-baked mirrorless products through its EOS M line – likely in an attempt to avoid cannibalizing its DSLR sales – the company appears to be embracing the format in its entirety. The EOS R is…
The Iran-linked group is using a variant of the data-exfiltration OopsIE trojan to attack a Mideast government entity.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Facebook has accused BlackBerry of stealing its voice-messaging technology in its instant messaging app. In an 118-page complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco, Facebook claimed BlackBerry infringed on five other patents, including the tracking and analysis of GPS data, voice-messaging technology, and the ways in which the app displays graphics, video and audio. In the…