A woman has been arrested and charged over the leak of National Security Agency documents that allege that Russia’s GRU military intelligence unit attempted to hack local government election officials. Reality Leigh Winner (pictured), a 25-year-old federal contractor from Atlanta, has been charged with violating federal laws that prohibit the distribution of classified defense information. Winner ...

Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc. has acquired Placed Inc., a Seattle-based startup that offers advertising analytics. Although the price of the deal was not officially disclosed, Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the matter, put the price at $125 million. The startup will continue as a separate operation. Founded in 2011, Placed connects physical and digital ...

Bitcoin exchange Coinbase Inc. is looking to raise a new round of $100 million on a valuation of $1 billion, according to reports first published Friday. The company, founded in 2012, offers an online platform that allows merchants, consumers and traders to transact with bitcoin. It includes a bitcoin wallet and the ability to buy and ...

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, ...