PeretzP/Flickr. The Silk Road, a Web based black market for illegal narcotics, fake documents, hackers-for-hire and other illicit goods, has been shut down by the FBI, and its alleged mastermind ...

Last week, we learned that the Dread Pirate Roberts -- the shadowy figure behind the online drug bazaar Silk Road -- is allegedly a 29-year-old dude living in San Francisco.

BMR operates pretty much exactly as Silk Road did, ... Here's what it looks like: Screenshot Finally, there's Sheep Marketplace, the newest and smallest of the three. Over at the Silk Road ...

Some security experts say the FBI's explanations for how it obtained the "leaked" IP address for Silk Road's misconfigured server are "impossible" and stink like the truth shouldn't. Legally, the ...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump carried through on another campaign promise, issuing a presidential pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the underground website Silk Road. But why did he do it?

That aside, the house looks much like it did 10 years ago. But for Benthall, a lot has changed. On Nov. 5, 2014, in front of neighbors who had known him as an unassuming techie and Bible reader, he ...

If you ask me, as an archeologist, the foundations of Silk Road can be traced back to the Bronze Age. But the peak of this exchange we date to the medieval period, between the 6th century and the ...