Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts. The FBI has arrested the alleged operator of The Silk Road. The “eBay for drugs” is now down, after enabling more than a billion dollars in transactions, ...

Silk Road, the illegal drug and services website that was operating on the Tor network, was taken off-line last week. This was shortly after the sites founder was arrested and questioned by the FBI.

Today, not only has the Silk Road been shut down and its alleged founder arrested, but now the authorities are beginning to arrest the market's biggest and most profitable sellers. What did they do ...

The big question on everyone’s mind is how law enforcement got Dread Pirate Roberts, the site’s mysterious founder, who had managed to remain anonymous since launching Silk Road in 2011. The ...

Silk Road used an underground computer network known as "The Onion Router" or "Tor" that relays computer messages through at least three separate computer servers to disguise its users. Customers ...

The director of a new film about Silk Road says he found striking parallels between the issues surrounding the online drug bazaar and Napster, the original music-sharing service. Richard Nieva was a ...

Little is known about how U.S. and European law enforcement shut down more than 400 websites, including Silk Road 2.0, which used technology that hides their true IP addresses. The websites were set ...

Little is known about how U.S. and European law enforcement shut down more than 400 websites, including Silk Road 2.0, which used technology that hides their true IP addresses. The websites were set ...