Global law enforcement agencies have shut down the notorious cybercrime forum Darkode after a prolonged investigation into its members. Reports are conflicting on how many people have been arrested in relation to the site, with numbers ranging from a dozen through to as many as 60, although there is some suggestion that authorities are pursing ...

Cybersecurity firm FireEye, Inc. would be feeling rather embarrassed today with news that they had employed an intern who turned out to be one of the world’s top Android hackers. 20-year-old Morgan Culbertson, according to reports, was arrested Wednesday and stands accused of being the mastermind behind Dendroid, malware that infects Android phones and can ...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.’s latest Android-powered smartphones may be not far off, with an unconfirmed report Tuesday suggesting that they’ll be announced in August. According to Samsung dedicated site Sammobile, Samsung will announce the Galaxy Note 5, along with the Galaxy S6 Plus and the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus on August 12, with all three ...

Notorious spyware vendor Hacking Team may have set the cat among the pigeons in the Bitcoin space with news that it has found a way to track Bitcoin transactions. According to Ars Technica, among the 400GB of files released as part of a massive hack, the company developed a piece of software called Money Module ...

Legendary computer brand Commodore is back from the dead, of sorts, at least in name, in the form of an Android-powered smartphone. The Commodore-branded phone is reported to come from a pair of Italian entrepreneurs who somehow ended up with the company name (and branding) and is called the PET; if that means as much ...

The ultimate (back in the day) fan-boi Web 2.0 dating site PlentyOfFish, Inc. just went the same way as some of the sites did from that period (in a positive sense, most went tits up) and sold out, and in this case, for a staggering $575 million. According to reports, the buyer was the Match ...

Real estate investing site Realty Mogul Co. has raised a $35 million Series B in a round led by Sorenson Capital that also included previous investor Canaan Partners. Founded in 2013, Realty Mogul is a marketplace for accredited investors to pool money online and buy shares of pre-vetted investment properties, with an object to make ...

Coding contests and recruitment site HackerRank (Interviewstreet, Inc.) has raised  $7.5 million in “strategic investment” from Recruit Holdings’ HR Technology Fund. A Y Combinator graduate founded in 2012 by Vivek Ravisankar and Harishankaran Karunanidhi, the site focuses on competitive programming challenges for both consumers and businesses across four computer science domains: artificial intelligence, algorithms, function ...

“To go where no man has gone before” may be a line from the mission of the Enterprise of Star Trek fame, but come Tuesday morning a man-made machine at least will be going where no one has gone before, and you’ll be able to watch the New Horizons Pluto flyby live online. Launched in ...

Snapchat, Inc.’s push into becoming a media company just got serious with the latest version of the app now putting its “Discover” news service front and center, pushing its core chat feature in part to the side. With the change, users will see Snapchat’s media partners directly below their “live” chats, but ahead of their ...