Three Chinese nationals have been indited by the U.S. Department of Justice on allegations that they were behind the hacking of Moody’s Corp., Siemens AG and Trimble Inc. between 2011 and the middle of this year. The indictment names Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, employees and owners of cybersecurity firm Guangzhou Bo Yu Information Technology Company ...

The United Kingdom is set to be the latest country to crack down on the use of drones as it published draft laws that would require some drone users to pass safety awareness tests, among other things. The proposed legislation, aimed at preventing the unsafe or criminal use of drones, is claimed to make sure drone ...

A clever group of hackers in Iraq is taking the good fight to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria by inserting fake news and pornography into web pages controlled by the group. Going by the name of Daeshgram, which is a play on an Arabic acronym used in the region to describe IS (known by many ...

The price of bitcoin surged past $9,000 for the first time on Sunday for a new record high as a new report claimed that as many as 23 percent of all bitcoin may be permanently lost, creating further scarcity in a market with rising demand. The tale of the lost bitcoins comes from security firm Chainalysis, which told ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation knew the Russian-linked Fancy Bear hacking group was targeting U.S. government officials for at least a year and failed to notify all but a handful of the targets, according to a report from the Associated Press. In what could become a massive scandal for the bureau, AP claims to have interviewed nearly ...

Popular image-sharing site Imgur Inc. has disclosed that it was hacked back in 2014, with the details of 1.7 million users stolen. The hack was first detected by Troy Hunt of data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, who had the stolen data sent to him last week. Hunt subsequently informed Imgur on Thursday that he was ...

Elon Musk is back on the artificial intelligence scaremongering bandwagon, saying in a recent talk that AI is probably going to kill us all. The Tesla Inc. chief executive made the comments talking to employees at his neurotechnology company Neuralink Inc., a startup developing “high bandwidth and safe brain-machine interfaces.” He said efforts to make AI safe have only “a 5 to 10 ...

Uber Technology Inc.’s woes continue to go from bad to worse as authorities in four countries launched probes into Uber’s hacking and subsequent cover-up of a serious hacking last year of 57 million customer records. Moreover, there are new claims that former Chief Executive Officer and current board member Travis Kalanick (pictured) authorized the payment to those ...

Intel Corp. has issued a patch to fix a number of serious security vulnerabilities discovered in its Management Engine, Server Platform Services and Trusted Execution Engine featured on a range of its chips. The vulnerabilities, found in Intel-based computers, including laptops and desktops shipped with Intel Core processors since 2015, could allow a remote attacker ...

In yet another backflip worthy of the Moscow Circus, a Russian minister has said that the country will never legalize bitcoin, just seven months after another government minister said it was considering making it legal. Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov made the statement Monday, saying that “bitcoin is a foreign project for using blockchain technology, the Russian ...