Sweden's civil emergency agency held a crisis meeting on Friday to discuss a number of cases of suspected sabotage involving telecommunications masts and a computer outage that grounded air traffic across much of the country. The incidents have reignited fears of foreign spies and the readiness of S...
Visitors look at Panasonic Corp's luxury brand home appliances called J concept at CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) JAPAN 2015 in Makuhari, Japan, October 6, 2015. Reuters/Yuya Shino/File Photo Panasonic Corp is prepared to move up its investment plans for Tesla Motors Inc's bat...
The SWIFT logo is pictured in this photo illustration taken April 26, 2016. Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Illustration/File Photo Shortly after 7 p.m. on January 12, 2015, a message from a secure computer terminal at Banco del Austro (BDA) in Ecuador instructed San Francisco-based Wells Fargo to transfer mo...
Tesla Motors Inc has surprised parts makers with plans to move up the launch of high-volume production of its Model 3 to 2018, two years earlier than planned - an acceleration that supplier executives and industry consultants said would be difficult to achieve and potentially costly. In the past thr...
Ultimately, common sense is your best protection. If an email, phone call or online message seems odd, suspicious or too good to be true, it may be an attack.
A sales assistant sits behind and under Alipay logos at a train station in Shanghai, February 9, 2015. Reuters/Aly Song Samsung Electronics said it had struck a deal with a Alibaba Group Holding for owners of its phones to be able to more easily make payments with Alipay accounts - a move it hopes w...
A security guard keeps watch as he walks past a logo of Google at an exhibition stage during the 4th China (Shanghai) International Technology Fair 2016 in Shanghai, China, April 21, 2016. Reuters/Aly Song Google has no plans to expand its partnership with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV to create a se...
Apple Inc unveiled a new vision for its hugely successful retail stores on Thursday, aiming to give shoppers the experience of setting foot in the headquarters of the company credited with inventing the smartphone. Speaking at a media event in San Francisco on Thursday, Apple executives offered a sn...
Online video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime will be required to devote at least a fifth of their catalogs to European content under proposals set to be announced next week. The European Commission is planning an overhaul of the European Union's broadcasting rules to bring in EU-...
A Bitcoin (virtual currency) coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris July 11, 2014. Reuters/Benoit Tessier Bitcoin exchange Coinbase said late Thursday it will add digital currency ether on its trading platform next Tuesday. With the launch of ether trading nex...
Google did not pay to use Oracle's software in millions of smartphones, but the company believed that the intellectual property was free for anyone to use, Larry Page, chief executive of Google's parent company, told jurors in court on Thursday. In a retrial at San Francisco federal court, Oracle Co...
A small group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill Thursday that would block a pending judicial rule change allowing U.S. judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction, even overseas, arguing the change would expand the FBI’s hacking authority. The one-...
A prototype of Google's own self-driving vehicle is seen during a media preview of Google's current autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage A group seeking to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil on Thursday called on policymakers to remove regu...
Noodles & Company [NASDAQ: NDLS], a fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 500 stores in 35 U.S. states, says it has hired outside investigators to probe reports of a credit card breach at some locations. Over the past weekend, KrebsOnSecurity began hearing from sources at multipl...
Noodles & Company [NASDAQ: NDLS], a fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 500 stores in 35 U.S. states, says it has hired outside investigators to probe reports of a credit card breach at some locations. Over the past weekend, KrebsOnSecurity began hearing from sources at multipl...
People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with a Google logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Alphabet Inc's Google appealed on Thursday an order from the French data protection authority to remove cer...
The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has invited SWIFT for a meeting in June to discuss the latest cyber attacks on banks in Bangladesh and Vietnam which involved SWIFT's financial messaging service. The move comes as members of ABS, which include Singaporean and foreign banks, have individua...
Apple CEO Tim Cook waves as he attends a talk in Beijing October 23, 2014. China Daily/via Reuters/File Photo The head of China's industry and technology regulator stressed Chinese users' security in a meeting with Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) chief executive in Beijing, as the U.S. tech titan stumbles in i...
Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman/File Photo The computer of a Bangladesh central bank official was hacked to carry out one of the largest cyber heists in history, a Bangladesh diplomat said on Thursday. John Gomes, Ban...
A man speaks on his mobile phone near a Samsung store in central Kiev, Ukraine, May 11, 2016. Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko Samsung Electronics and Alibaba Group Holding plan to announce a collaboration on mobile payment systems on Friday, South Korean media reported. Under the tie-up, Samsung Electroni...
