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WASHINGTON - Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey hit out at Apple and Google on Thursday over new data-security measures designed to reassure...

NEW YORK - The head of technology for Liberty Reserve, an alternative digital currency used in what authorities called a massive global fraud scheme,...

LOS ANGELES - The FBI vowed Monday to widen a probe into the massive hacking of naked celebrity photos if necessary, after new reported...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a National Authority for Cyber Defense on Sunday to oversee the protection of both military and...

MOSCOW - Russia is considering measures to protect its cyberspace from the "unpredictable" West, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Friday after a newspaper...

SAN FRANCISCO - Google said Thursday it would beef up encryption of its mobile operating system, so that it would not hold "keys" to...

WASHINGTON - Apple is rolling out new privacy protections for iPhones and iPads, with a new system that makes it impossible for the company...

WASHINGTON - Online piracy of music, films and other content has moved to the Internet cloud, reaping big profits for digital thieves, according to...

BEIJING - Beijing on Thursday strongly denied a US congressional panel's claim that Chinese government-linked hackers had launched dozens of cyberattacks on American defense...

DOHA - A media rights group on Thursday urged Qatar to revoke sections of a new cybercrime law, saying they threaten freedom of expression...

WASHINGTON - Chinese hackers believed to be linked to Beijing conducted dozens of cyberattacks on US defense contractors between 2012 and 2013, potentially compromising...

LAGOS - Nigeria's anti-graft agency said it was hunting a 38-year-old bank worker on Wednesday for allegedly stealing $38 million from his employers by...

WASHINGTON - The US military is building a new cyber defense corps that can be used to protect the nation and possibly for offensive...

BERLIN - The US National Security Agency and British intelligence services are able to secretly access data from telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom and several...

WASHINGTON - US authorities threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to comply with a secret surveillance program requiring it to...

WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department has released two memos detailing the Bush administration's legal justification for monitoring the phone calls and emails of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is ramping up iCloud defenses in the aftermath of hackers swiping nude photos of celebrities from the online digital vault,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Thursday began rolling out its "privacy checkup" aimed at helping users of the huge social network better manage sharing...

TOKYO - Japan's security-conscious government admitted Thursday that details about the flight path and exact location of the prime minister's plane had been posted...

LOS ANGELES - Those behind the massive leak of naked celebrity photos that shocked the show business world could and should be prosecuted, including...