Three Chinese citizens have been charged in the United States of hacking law firms to obtain confidential information on corporate mergers and acquisitions to engage in insider trading. Iat Hong and Chin Hung of Macau and Bo Zheng of Changsha, China, were charged with conspiracy, insider trading, wire fraud and computer intrusion in an indictment ...

Alexa, who dunnit? That question might sound somewhat facetious, but police in Bentonville, Arkansas, are attempting to do exactly that through a request to Amazon.com Inc. to release information that may have been recorded by an Echo device in the home of a suspected murderer. First noticed by The Information, the case involves the alleged murder ...

Big Brother could soon be real for the employees of Bridgewater Associates LP. The world’s largest hedge fund is building a system that would automate most of the firm’s management. The system, variously known as “The Book of the Future,” “The One Thing” and the “Principles Operating System”, according to The Wall Street Journal, uses an extensive book to guide employees ...

Apple Inc. has made good on its promise to start publishing its research on artificial intelligence with the publication of its first paper in the field. Spotted first by Forbes, the paper, titled “Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training,” was submitted for review in mid-November before being ultimately published by the Cornell University Library on ...

Messaging app maker Snap Inc. has acquired Israeli augmented reality firm Cimagine Media, according to an Israeli news report. First reported by Calcalist, the deal, which has not yet been confirmed by either company, is believed to be around the $30-$40 million mark. Cimagine will become Snap’s research and development center in Israel and is expected to expand its workforce ...

In a growing trend, hackers are hijacking phone numbers as a new way to steal funds from bitcoin and other accounts. According to a report by Forbes, hackers were able to fake the identity of Colombian man Jered Kenna then subsequently transfer his mobile phone number from T-Mobile to another carrier linked to a Google Voice account to ...

A recently discovered form of malware is spreading across Linux servers and Linux-powered Internet of Things devices, causing network congestion as it attempts to build a botnet. Called Rakos, the malware is attacking vulnerable devices via brute-force Secure Socket Shell login attempts. Once it gains access, it then uses the infected machine to carry out more brute-force attacks on ...

Indian employees will be able to get paid by foreign companies with bitcoin thanks to a deal between Bangalore-based Unocoin Technologies Private Limited and San Francisco payroll startup Bitwage Ltd. The partnership will allow Indian freelancers and employees to receive their salaries and wages in bitcoin from employers in countries such as the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom, avoiding ...

Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. is in talks with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo division, previously known as Google Car, to add self-driving technology to its vehicles. The talks are said to be at an early stage. Both companies say any deal will first involve research versus production vehicles. Should it progress further, Honda would become the second ...

New research has uncovered a bot farm that is estimated to be fraudulently stealing millions in revenue from online video advertising companies. Dubbed “Methbot” by New York-based security firm White Ops because of references to meth in the bot’s code, the Russian-run bot uses an army of automated web browsers run from fraudulently acquired IP addresses. ...