Petya, the malware that is a creating headlines as it infects computers worldwide, is being offered as a ransomware as a service product. The software, also known as Petrwrap and Diskcoder.C, even comes complete with an affiliate program on the darknet, the hidden part of the web only reachable through special software, according to two security ...

Flying cars may still be primarily the realm of science fiction despite decades of promises. But autonomous flying car drones may soon be taking to the skies thanks to a new prototype developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The unnamed self-driving/flying drone from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has been designed to ascertain the ...

Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.’s YouTube have come together to form a new partnership that aims to tackle terrorism. Called the “Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism,” the group will not be sending drones into the Middle East but will instead be collaborating on the best ways to make their hosted consumer ...

Avis Budget Group and Hertz Global Holdings Inc. want a slice of the self-driving car market. Each of the rental car companies signed separate deals with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and Apple Inc., respectively. The deal between Avis and Waymo will see the rental car giant joining former Google Inc. self-driving car unit’s efforts to deliver ...

Apple Inc. has acquired SensoMotoric Instruments GmbH, a German firm that develops computer vision technology and eye tracking systems for research and industry. The acquisition of SMI was first reported Monday by MacRumors and confirmed by a traditional “non-confirmation” from Apple received by Axios. Founded way back in 1991, SMI delivers eye tracking solutions for business, researchers and professionals serving ...

Everyone dreams of making it big with a small investment — even a teen from Idaho, who has done just that. Eighteen-year-old Erik Finman (pictured) began investing in bitcoin in May 2011 at the age of 12 using a $1,000 gift from his grandmother. Back then, bitcoin was valued at $12 a coin, allowing Finman to build up ...

A critical flaw has been discovered in Intel Corp.’s Skylake and Kaby Lake chips that could result in application and data issues, according to a newly published report. The issue is said to be the result of a microcode bug in Intel’s hyperthreading process and affects Skylake and Kaby Lake Intel Core central processing unit chips ...

People who lost money when the price of Ethereum dropped from about $320 to a mere 10 cents a token after a “flash crash” will be reimbursed by concurrency exchange Coinbase Inc., the company announced over the weekend. The flash crash would appear to have been triggered by a number of in-place orders and automated ...

A coordinated cyberattack that targeted the email accounts of politicians crippled Britain’s parliamentary network on Saturday. The attack, which is said to have resulted in the compromise of 90 email accounts on the network, resulted in officials deciding to disable remote access to the emails of members of Parliament, peers and their staff as a safeguard against those ...

Bitcoin startup Blockchain Luxembourg S.A. has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Lakestar. Founded in 2011, Blockchain aims to reimagine global financial transactions using software that facilitates the use of bitcoin for its customers. Having passed 10 million bitcoin wallets in November last year, Blockchain claims to be the world’s most popular bitcoin ...