Google Inc. is upping its fight against the spread of extremist content on its YouTube service by rolling out new artificial-intelligence services in conjunction with additional human oversight to stop it faster. The advanced AI platform will use ongoing machine learning research that in theory can automatically flag and remove terrorist videos but at the same ...

Police in Europe have arrested six people and questioned 39 others in relation to a cybercrime ring that involved the distribution of counter-antivirus software and a crypter service, which encrypts and conceals malware. Lead by Germany’s Kriminalinspektion Mayen in conjunction with Europol, operation “Neuland” saw the arrest of people involved in the cybercrime ring in the U.K., Norway, Italy, ...

The Central Intelligence Agency likes to hack Wi-Fi routers. That’s the major takeaway from a new dump from Wikileaks that includes the details of software used by the agency to spy on all and sundry. Called “Cherry Blossom,” the CIA-designed hacking software uses a modified version of a router’s firmware to turn it into a surveillance ...

Conviva Inc., a San Mateo, California-based company that uses artificial intelligence to measure and manage video plays, has raised $40 million in new funding. Founded in 2006, Conviva aims to address the “changing business of television” with a big-data platform that enables online video providers to customize their content for their viewers. The company’s Intelligent ...

Amazon.com Inc. may be interested in acquiring enterprise messaging platform provider Slack Technologies Inc., according to a report published early Thursday morning. Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that Slack has received recent inquiries about a potential takeover from Amazon as well as other unnamed companies. The talks are said to be ...

Artificial intelligence software designed by Microsoft Corp. has achieved something that was previously never thought possible: a perfect score in the computer game Ms. Pac-Man. Using computing power and programming power on what would appear to be a frivolous use of AI. But Microsoft claimed in a blog post today that the method used could ...

Leading bitcoin exchange Bitfinex advised customers that they were being targeted by a distributed denial of service attack Wednesday following a similar attack the day before. The attack, which involves a company’s servers being flooded with data in an attempt to take its services offline, did not affect bitcoin and Ethereum trading. “Most users will ...

Confirming what has perhaps always been known but rarely stated publicly, the founder of popular encrypted-messaging app Telegram Messenger LLP said that he was indeed offered bribes by U.S. government officials to install a backdoor into the app to give them access to messages. The accusation comes from Pavel Durov, who took to Twitter to make the ...

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an alert Tuesday that the North Korean government is targeting businesses with malware and botnet-related attacks as part of a concerted new hacking campaign. Dubbed “Hidden Cobra,” the campaign is targeting media, aerospace, financial and critical infrastructure sectors in the U.S. and around the world using a mixture of tools, according ...

Remote monitoring and management startup Continuum Managed Services LLC has been acquired for an undisclosed price by Thoma Bravo LLC, a private equity investment firm with a taste for investing in enterprise and security startups. Founded in 2011, Continuum offers a cloud-based platform that allows managed service providers to backup, monitor, troubleshoot and maintain information technology ...