(Reuters) - U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy Co said on Friday it was pulling Kaspersky Lab’s cyber security products from its shelves and website, amid concerns that the firm may be vulnerable to Russian government influence. Best Buy felt there were "too many unanswered questions" and so d...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demand for exchange-traded funds that would provide exposure to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin is strong, but regulators will likely wait until the underlying market matures more before approving such products, a panel of securities industry experts said on Friday. The U.S. Secur...
MONTREAL (Reuters) - The United Nations’ aviation agency is backing the creation of a single global drone registry, as part of broader efforts to come up with common rules for flying and tracking unmanned aircraft. While the International Civil Aviation Organization cannot impose regulations o...
I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company’s public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau Equifax, which rather clumsily announced Thursday that an intrusion jeopardized Social security n...
I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company’s public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau Equifax, which rather clumsily announced Thursday that an intrusion jeopardized Social security n...
(Reuters) - Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) 11 foreign lawsuits against Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) can proceed while the company’s dispute plays out in the United States, a U.S. federal judge in San Diego ruled Sept. 7. Qualcomm and Apple are facing off in federal court over Qualcomm’s licensing f...
(Reuters) - About two-thirds of American adults are getting “at least some of their news on social media” with two-in-ten doing so often, according to a Pew Research Center survey this week. About 67 percent of American adults somewhat rely on social media platforms such as Facebook Inc,...
(Reuters) - Equifax Inc (EFX.N) faced a storm of criticism on Friday over a hack that may have compromised personal data for some 143 million Americans, with customers clamoring for answers and cyber security experts questioning the response to the massive breach. Lawmakers also joined the chorus, s...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin fell sharply on Friday after a report from a Chinese news outlet said China was planning to shut down local crypto-currency exchanges, although analysts said this was just a temporary setback. Sources close to a cross regulators committee that oversees online finance act...
(Reuters) - Equifax Inc (EFX.N) shares tumbled as much as 18 percent on Friday as cyber security experts and customers criticized the consumer credit score provider’s response to a hack that may have stolen personal details of up to 143 million Americans. The hack, among the largest ever recor...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s finance ministry wants to regulate the circulation of crypto-currencies involving Russian citizens and firms, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Friday. Russian financial authorities initially treated any sort of money issued by non-state approved institutions ...
(Reuters) - Equifax Inc’s shares tumbled 18 percent on Friday after the provider of consumer credit scores revealed that hackers may have stolen personal details of nearly half of the American adult population in one of the largest data breaches. Equifax said on Thursday it discovered the brea...
(Reuters) - Shares of Equifax Inc tumbled 13 percent on Friday after the provider of consumer credit scores revealed that personal details of as many as 143 million Americans were likely accessed in one of the largest data breaches in the United States. The cyber attack comes nearly two years after ...
(Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing to see if Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] had used software to illegally interfere with its competitors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The investigation is focusing on an Uber program, internally known as “Hell,” th...
LONDON (Reuters) - Uber [UBER.UL] will cease using diesel cars in London by the end of 2019 and the vast majority of rides will be in electric or hybrid vehicles by then, the taxi app said on Friday. At the moment the company says around half of all the journey miles completed in the British capital...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - One Uber vehicle and two other taxis were torched in South Africa’s main business district on Thursday night in a feud over fares, but no one was injured, Uber and police said on Friday. The vehicles were set alight in the wealthy Sandton district near the Gautrain sta...
FLORENCE (Reuters) - The initial findings of Germany’s investigation of U.S. social network company Facebook over possible market abuse will be announced by the end of the year, the country’s cartel office said on Friday. The competition watchdog’s investigation, which kicked off i...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - ZhongAn Online Property and Casualty Insurance Co Ltd, China’s first internet-only insurer, secured Hong Kong stock exchange approval for its planned initial public offering which could raise more than $1 billion, sources with direct knowledge of the deal said on Friday. ...
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. legislation may be needed to require social media companies to disclose more about how their platforms are used for political advertising, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Thursday, after new signs of Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. Faceb...
Equifax, one of the “big-three” U.S. credit bureaus, said today that a data breach at the company may have affected 143 million Americans, jeopardizing consumer Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver’s license numbers. In a press release today, Equifax [NYS...
