It’s well-known in cybersecurity circles that those behind various forms of malware often sell the data they steal on the dark web, the sometimes shady sites reachable only through specialized software. Now, in an interesting twist, a dark web forum may be behind a recently launched new form of malware, according to newly published research. ...

Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car unit, is now exploring self-driving trucks, according to a report from Reuters late Thursday. “We’re taking our eight years of experience in building self-driving hardware and software and conducting a technical exploration into how our technology can integrate into a truck,” a Waymo spokesman said in a statement. Waymo’s move into ...

Web 2.0 era social bookmarking service Delicious is no longer. The pioneering site is set to shut down after being acquired by a company called Nine Fives Software Inc. that runs a competing service called Pinboard. Founded in 2003, Delicious, originally styled as del.icio.us, was a service that allowed Internet users to bookmark sites they found ...

Future versions of Google Inc.’s Chrome web browser will have an ad blocker of sorts built in and turned on by default, the search giant announced on Thursday. The built-in ad blocker in Chrome, which was first rumored in April, isn’t an ad blocker in a traditional sense in that it won’t block all ads, a move ...

When most people think of outlaw motorcycle gangs, they might think of drug dealing, gang wars and large men with facial hair on even larger bikes. Now, in a strange story out of Southern California, hacking can now be added to that list. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in conjunction with state authorities, has arrested members ...

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Security are teaming up to fight cybercrime together with a partnership that will see the two companies collaborating on products, services and threat intelligence for the benefit of both their sets of customers. At the top of the list, IBM Corp.’s X-Force and Cisco’s Talos Security researchers will now work together to ...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner and longtime tech analyst Mary Meeker released her annual Internet Trends Report Wednesday, and more than anything else, she pointed to a transformation of health thanks to big data and cloud computing. The report, which is highly regarded in the tech community for its insights into trends and predictions, ...

Brave, the new web browser from former Mozilla Foundation Chief Executive Officer Brendan Eich, has broken at least one record as the company raised $35 million in an initial coin offering that sold out in 30 seconds, faster than any previous coin offering. The ICO offered for sale 156,250 Ethereum-based Basic Attention Tokens created by Brave Software Inc. ...

Hackers like to hack other hackers. That bit of poetic justice is the main takeaway from new research published by security firm Trend Micro Inc. that studied the actions of hackers who operate on the dark web. The company set up a number of “honeypots,” that is, decoy server setups to gather information, to gain ...

The cost of cybercrime will rise to $8 billion over the next five years, with billions of hacked customer records finding their way online, according to a newly released research paper. The paper from Juniper Research estimates that 2.8 billion customer data records are expected to be stolen this year, increasing to 5 billion by 2022. ...