Since their invention in 1958, pacemakers have saved many lives, but in 2017 its benefits are more complicated. Not only do the devices face the risk of being hacked, their data can also be used in criminal trials. An Ohio judge this week ruled that the data recorded by a pacemaker can be used as ...

The mystery behind the disappearance of darknet marketplace AlphaBay may have been solved, though not happily. Reports claim that the service, which allowed the sale of drugs, hacking tools and other illegal items, was shut down following a global law enforcement operation that led to the arrest of an owner of the site in Thailand, who ...

A new hacking tool operated via a smartphone to hijack websites is being praised on forums on a shady part of the Internet for its ease of use and ongoing support. It’s called the “Katyusha Scanner,” after the Russian rocket launcher of the same name used during World War II. The SQL injection tool combines the ...

As the price and interest in bitcoin continues to rise, it was only a matter of time until mainstream financial institutions wanted a slice of the action. That’s exactly what has happened in Switzerland as a private bank is now offering bitcoin services for the first time. The new service, described as the first private bank offering ...

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab will no longer be able to provide services to most U.S. government agencies after the firm was removed from two lists of approved vendors following allegations that the company was linked to Russian security services. The ban, first proposed in Congress in June, instead came directly from the Trump administration after ...

The personal information of 14 million customers of Verizon Communications Inc. has been discovered online thanks to what appears to be a security failure by a partner of the company. The data was found on an Amazon Web Service Inc.’s S3 server controlled by an employee of Nice Systems Ltd., an Israeli firm that specializes in telephone ...

The seemingly never ending saga of failed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox may finally be entering its final act. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges of embezzlement and data manipulation before the Tokyo District Court Tuesday. He stands accused of transferring 341 million yen ($3 million) from a Mt. Gox account holding customer ...

Customers of the Trump Hotel chain may soon be seeing orange, as news broke Tuesday that the chain owned by the president has been hacked, complete with credit card numbers and personal details getting stolen. The hack of the Trump Hotel chain, like the Hard Rock and Loews Hotel chains before it, was blamed on ...

Google Inc. has launched a new investment fund to invest in artificial-intelligence startups. Called Gradient, the new fund will be a early-stage venture capital fund with a difference. Not only will it invest in AI startups but it also will provide technical resources, dedicated access to experts, AI boot camps and mentorships. The new fund will ...

Two of Australia’s leading banks have teamed with IBM Corp. to prove blockchain technology can process bank guarantees on commercial property leasing. The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. and Westpac Banking Corp. used IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric platform to replace the traditional paper-based bank guarantee process used for commercial property leasing with a distributed digital ...