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LOS ANGELES - The FBI and Apple were urgently investigating Monday after an apparent massive hack of a cloud data service unleashed a torrent...

LOS ANGELES - Scandal rocked both Hollywood and the US tech industry Monday after an apparent massive hack of a cloud data service unleashed...

WASHINGTON - The United States has launched a social media offensive against the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, setting out to win the war of...

NEW YORK - Investigators were digging Thursday to find who initiated and what was taken in an apparent intense hacker effort this month to...

NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase said Thursday that it was cooperating with law-enforcement officials to determine the scale of reported cyber attacks against US...

NEW YORK - Hackers believed to be from Russia broke into the computer systems of JPMorgan Chase and a second US bank earlier this...

SINGAPORE - Singapore on Tuesday announced new measures to strengthen cyber security to prevent a recurrence of attacks on government websites including those of...

MANILA - Philippine police arrested eight suspects and are hunting more in connection with an Internet extortion racket that has victimized hundreds of people...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Wednesday awarded a $50,000 Internet Defense Prize to a pair of German researchers with a seemingly viable approach to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Microsoft chief Steven Ballmer on Tuesday said he is stepping down as a member of the software giant's board of...

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency is developing a tool that can detect cyberattacks from an adversary by analyzing Internet traffic and respond automatically,...

WARSAW - Ukrainian hackers hostile to the government claimed Thursday to have launched a cyber attack against the websites of Poland's presidency and the...

MOSCOW - Hackers broke into Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's Twitter account on Thursday, tweeting his resignation and criticizing President Vladimir Putin. "I'm resigning....

WASHINGTON - Edward Snowden says dishonest comments to Congress by the US intelligence chief were the final straw that prompted him to flee the...

TAIPEI - Taiwan's science and technology minister said Wednesday that China is launching frequent cyber attacks on the island despite warming ties between the...

MOSCOW - Fugitive US intelligence operative Edward Snowden has been granted a three-year residence permit in Russia, his Russian lawyer said at a press...

KHARTOUM - For the second time in a month, hackers have attacked a Sudanese website close to the country's powerful security apparatus, AFP learned...

SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday defended tough new terror laws under which digital data will be retained for up to...

WASHINGTON - The latest media scoop about the internal workings of the US intelligence community has convinced officials they have a new leaker feeding...

BEIJING - A student in China has been detained for selling "intelligence" to foreigners for more than $32,000, state media said Wednesday in the...