In 2013, Ross Ulbricht was hunted down by the FBI while sitting in a San Francisco library. He was arrested for making half a billion dollars running Silk Road, a “dark web” marketplace for buying and ...

San Francisco – There is a dark side to the Internet, and it can be used for evil as well as for good. A massive online bazaar hawking narcotics, weapons, forgeries, and other illicit items or ...

It's a real-life, high-tech version of "Breaking Bad." An FBI arrest in San Francisco has a backdrop of billions in online drug sales, murder-for-hire plots and a shadowy Internet website far from the ...

His name was Ross Ulbricht, a 29-year-old former physics and engineering student from Austin, Texas. Many men of his background were in this same city to launch a technology startup or two, but the ...

It hasn’t been a week since the government seized and shut down Silk Road, the digital black marke t hidden in the underground Deep Web, and arrested the alleged owner, Ross William Ulbricht, but a ...

One of the most bizarre tech stories in years emerged this week, in the wake of the FBI's closure of the Silk Road underground internet portal. Only accessible by those who know how to configure and ...

NEW YORK – One of the messages from the Silk Road darknet drug-trafficking trial is that what happens on the Internet almost always stays on the Internet — and can be retrieved. Manhattan federal ...

A new website called “Silk Road Reloaded” wants to become the new marketplace for illegal products. Strangely, it does not rely on Tor, a service that anonymizes traffic, but the Invisible Internet ...

Money laundering, drug trafficking and computer hacking. Those are just some of the charges that 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht, the accused founder of the anonymous black market site Silk Road, will be ...

In closing arguments Tuesday, a prosecutor urged jurors to follow the "digital fingerprints" of the San Francisco man who created the underground website Silk Road and to convict him of operating a ...

In an eastern Chinese town not too far from Shanghai, cybertechnology leaders and government officials from around the world gathered this week to discuss the future of the global digital economy.