Ruslans Bondars and Jurijs Martisevs, two Latvian citizens, are facing charges in the US for running a portal that allowed cybercrooks to scan and see if their malware was detected by antivirus software.Called "no distribute scanners," these services are similar to...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he and Russia's president had discussed forming a cyber security unit, an idea harshly criticized by Republicans who said Moscow could not be trusted after its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.Tweeting after his...

Back in 1980, Milton Friedman, the University of Chicago economist, starred in a public-television series called “Free to Choose,” in whoch he presented his free-market ideas and, famously, told a young man that everything he knew about monopoly power was wrong. In...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday that he discussed forming a cyber security unit to guard against election hacking with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Tweeting after his first meeting with Putin on Saturday, Trump said now was the time to work...

WWE fans take note: an IT error may have left your personal information open to anyone, including addresses, educational background, earnings and ethnicity.Earlier this week, Bob Dyachenko, from security firm Kromtech, told Forbes he'd uncovered a huge, unprotected...

The internal combustion engine had a good run. It has helped propel cars — and thus humanity — forward for more than 100 years.But a sea change is afoot that is forecast to kick gas-powered vehicles to the curb, replacing them with cars that run on batteries. A flurry...

Stream-ripping is now the fastest-growing form of music piracy in the UK, new research has suggested.Several sites and apps allow users to turn Spotify songs, YouTube videos and other streaming content into permanent files to store on phones and computers.Record...

Germany's BSI federal cyber agency said on Friday that the threat posed to German firms by recent cyber attacks launched via a Ukrainian auditing software was greater than expected, and some German firms had seen production halted for over a week.Analyses by computer...

Five teenage pupils from The Gambia who built a robot for a prestigious international competition in the United States will not be able to accompany their invention to the event after being denied a visa.The Gambian pupils become the second team of students refused...

Transportstyrelsens förra generaldirektör Maria Ågren har fått ett strafföreläggande för vårdslöshet. Enligt Riksenheten för säkerhetsmål har hon röjt sekretessbelagda uppgifter som kan vara till skada för rikets säkerhet. Hon ska nu betala 70.000 kronor i dagsböter,...

Tech entrepreneur Cheryl Yeoh's account of sexual harassment by a leading Silicon Valley investor is the latest discrimination scandal to rock the tech industry.Dave McClure resigned from 500 Startups, the firm he co-founded, following claims made by another woman -...

German police have uncovered an underground website for child pornography with nearly 90,000 users and arrested the suspected operator of the platform, prosecutors said on Thursday.The "Elysium" platform, built as a forum, has existed since the end of 2016 and was...