A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. A funny thing happened in the Bitcoin world late last week with Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn quit his ...

Leading online streaming media service Netflix, Inc. has announced the launch dates for eleven new and returning original shows, including the announcements that popular fan favorite Marvel’s Jessica Jones will return for a second season and some of the lineup for the forthcoming series, the U.S. remake of the British series Black Mirror. Launched in November ...

AOL, Inc. may soon be known by another name with a senior executive stating at the weekend that the company may soon ditch its name. Chief Marketing Officer Allie Kline floated the move with Business Insider, stating that people still relate the name to an email service and don’t realize instead that its primary business ...

Security firm Rapid7, LLC has released the results of its 2015 Incident Detection and Response Survey that found that organizations have become overwhelmed as the security threat environment continues to provide increased challenges. The company surveyed hundreds of security professionals at organizations of varied sizes across the globe on their biggest security concerns and planned initiatives ...

Islamic terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, more commonly known as ISIS, has entered the Android chat marketplace with a new encrypted messaging app that they are able to use to plot their attacks on Western civilization. The app, called Alrawi.apk, or just “the Alrawi app,” was discovered by online terrorist hunting ...

Raytheon | Websense, the majority owned cybersecurity division of defense contractor Raytheon Co., has a new name following its acquisition of Stonesoft from Intel Security. The new company name is Forcepoint, LLC and will offer the combined products of both Raytheon | Websense (itself the result of a merger back in April 2015) and Stonesoft’s ...

Insurance discovery and purchase startup PolicyGenius, Inc. has raised $15 million Series B in a round led by Revolution Ventures that included Karlin Ventures, Susa Ventures, AXA Strategic Ventures, Transamerica Ventures and MassMutual Ventures. Founded in 2014 by two former McKinsey & Company consultants, PolicyGenuis aims to service a gap in the insurance industry through ...

The days of using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or proxy service to access Netflix, Inc.’s catalog of content in the United States may be numbered with the company announcing Thursday that it would be cracking down on the practice. Previously, users outside of the United States could sign up to the service and then ...

European Union law enforcement agency Europol has announced the arrest of individuals suspected of being tied to the notorious Bitcoin extortion group DD4BC. According to the organization, the arrests were made as part of Operation Pleiades, a global law enforcement response to the numerous attacks by the group and included the police forces of Austria, ...

In a case of better later than never, Google, Inc. has decided to get serious on virtual reality (VR) with the creation of a unit dedicated to the burgeoning space. According to Re/Code, Google has appointed Clay Bavor, previously the Vice President of Product Management, a division covering services such Google’s Gmail and Google Drive, ...