Having failed in its effort to enforce drone pilot registration, the Federal Aircraft Administration is now looking at creating a remote identification system that would allow drones in the air to be identified from the ground. The FAA first attempted to force registration on pilots of drones weighing over a half-pound in November 2015 as a backdoor ...

The founder of security company Kaspersky Lab has offered to testify before Congress and provide the company’s source code to government officials in response to an FBI investigation and a proposal that would see the company banned from working with the U.S. military. Eugene Kaspersky (pictured) made the offer via an interview with the Associated ...

Another day, another record initial coin offering. Block.One, developer of the new blockchain platform EOS.IO, announced Saturday that it has raised $185 million through an initial offering of its cryptocurrency “tokens,” beating the previous record of $150 million raised by Bancor in mid-June. Based in Hong Kong, Block.One’s EOS.IO aims to “decentralize everything” with a platform that ...

Notorious hacking group The Shadow Brokers is back in the news and absolutely not surprisingly for anyone who follows its exploits, it’s all about the money again. The group, which is perhaps now most famous for releasing the National Security Agency-linked Windows exploits that were used in both the WannaCry and NotPetya attacks, is now ...

Dubai likes to be the first or best at many things ranging from their soon to be launched self-flying taxi service, the world’s tallest building and the world’s first 3D printed office. Now the emirate can add a new first to its list: the world’s first deployment of self-driving autonomous mobile surveillance units. The units, which are ...

Microsoft Corp. is attempting to take up the good fight against ransomware with the latest Windows update, including a trial of a new anti-ransomware feature within Windows Defender. Windows Build 16232, which was released as part of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, includes a feature within Windows Defender Antivirus that allows users designate specific folders or directories on ...

After a fairly strong run of initial public offerings by enterprise tech companies this year, suddenly new headwinds are starting to slow them down — but they haven’t stopped them yet. The murky picture for tech offerings, especially those selling into data centers and information technology departments, emerged Thursday as various reports indicated cloud security ...

Cloud-focused cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks Inc. is taking artificial intelligence to the world of phishing protection with a new product that promises to provide real-time spear phishing and cyberfraud defense. Called Barracuda Sentinel, the cloud service uses AI to protect people, businesses and brands from spear phishing, a method of sending emails that appear to be from a ...

A hoax that claimed that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin had died led to $4 billion being wiped off the value of the popular cryptocurrency alternative to bitcoin. The hoax, which originated on 4chan before appearing on the fake news website Vionews (since deleted) claimed that 23-year-old Buterin and 34-year-old Travis Sellmon had died in a multivehicle car ...

Employees of security company Kaspersky Lab have been questioned by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the company’s links to the Russian government as members of Congress called on the company to be banned from military work within the United States. The questioning, which is said to have occurred Tuesday, saw FBI agents visiting ...