Seven months after first announcing that it was teaching its Watson cognitive technology platform to fight cybercrime, IBM Corp. has launched it into the real world, at least in test mode. The Watson for Cyber Security platform has been designed to discover behavior patterns and evidence of hidden cyber attacks and threats that could otherwise ...

Video site Dailymotion is the latest big hacking target, as the details of 85.2 million account holders have made their way online. The hack of the Vivendi SA-owned YouTube competitor, first reported by data breach notification LeakedSource, includes unique email addresses and usernames from the company’s systems. Only 18.3 million accounts had associated passwords with ...

Volkswagen AG is moving into ride-sharing and self-driving cars with a new spinoff company. Called Moia, the new company will be based in Berlin and will focus on “new mobility solutions”  that the car giant hopes will generate “a significant share” of its overall revenues by 2025. The new company will develop and market its own ...

Intelligent assistant app maker Accompani Inc. has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Ignition Partners with the participation of Charles River Ventures. Founded in 2013, the startup sells an app called Accompany that is marketed as an intelligent, adaptive “chief of staff” that integrates with user’s email, contacts, social feeds and ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has expanded its push into artificial intelligence through the acquisition of New York City-based Geometric Intelligence Inc., a company that is making an ambitious attempt to do machine learning more efficiently from less data. Under the deal, Geometric Intelligence’s 15-person staff will relocate to Uber’s hometown of San Francisco and form Uber ...

Apple Inc.’s on again, off again self-driving car project would appear to be on again. The company has disclosed in a letter to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it’s keen to test its own self-driving vehicles. The letter, dated Nov. 22, was sent by Apple to the NHTSA as part of a lobbying ...

There is unlikely to be an Apple-branded drone anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the tech giant isn’t fond of using them: Multiple reports claim that Apple Inc. is planning to use drones to enhance its Maps app. According to Bloomberg quoting sources familiar with the matter, Apple is assembling a team of robotics and ...

A botnet network at one stage responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks globally has been brought down following a four-year investigation by global law enforcement agencies. The Avalanche network is estimated to involve hundreds of thousands of infected computers worldwide. As part of the takedown, officials seized command and control servers and took control of ...

Amazon Web Services has entered the distributed denial of service mitigation business with a new service launched at the re:Invite conference in Las Vegas Thursday. Called AWS Shield, the new managed service protects web applications against DDoS attacks in conjunction with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 and protects users from DDoS ...

A new form of Android malware that roots devices and steals email accounts and authentication tokens has been found and is believed to have hijacked more than a million Google accounts. Discovered by security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and named “Gooligan,” the malware targets older Android devices running on variants of Android called ...