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WASHINGTON - Nine out of 10 people identified in a large cache of online conversations intercepted by the National Security Agency were ordinary Internet...

SEOUL - North Korea has doubled the number of its elite cyber warriors over the past two years and established overseas bases for hacking...

MOSCOW - Russia's parliament passed a bill on Friday requiring Internet companies to store Russians' personal data inside the country in an apparent move...

BERLIN - An employee of Germany's foreign intelligence service is suspected of spying for Washington on a parliamentary panel probing US surveillance, media reports...

WASHINGTON - The future of an open Internet faces threats from government crackdowns, and "balkanization" resulting from growing concerns over broad electronic surveillance, a...

LONDON - Britain's electronic eavesdropping center GCHQ faces legal action from seven internet service providers who accuse it of illegally accessing "potentially millions of...

WASHINGTON - The US National Security Agency's electronic snooping led to "well over 100 arrests" and helped smash numerous terrorist plots, a privacy review...

WASHINGTON - Washington will push Beijing to crack down on cyber-spying and halt the theft of corporate data when the two powers meet next...

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency's vast data collection program targeting foreign nationals is a largely legal, valuable tool in fighting terrorism, a watchdog...

TAIPEI - Taiwan tech giant Hon Hai said Wednesday it has pulled out of a deal to buy 4G equipment from Huawei after the...

WASHINGTON - The US National Security Agency has been authorized to intercept information "concerning" all but four countries worldwide, top-secret documents say, according to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft on Tuesday said it is scrambling Outlook email messages in transit to thwart spying by governments or others. Toughened encryption...

WASHINGTON - Cyberattackers, probably state sponsored, have been targeting energy operations in the United States and Europe since 2011 and were capable of causing...

WASHINGTON - The US National Security Agency released its first "transparency report" Friday, as part of an effort to quell the firestorm over reports...

WASHINGTON - The US Congress has passed a law offering whistleblower protections for government intelligence employees, a move cheered Wednesday by supporters of former...

DUBAI - Human Rights Watch on Friday demanded a clarification from Saudi Arabia over allegations from security researchers that the kingdom is infecting and...

WASHINGTON - The bitcoin world kicked into high gear Friday as the US government began auctioning some of the virtual currency seized in an...

OTTAWA - Lawyers at Canada's justice department were fooled into providing confidential information by responding to phishing emails far more than average Internet users,...

BAGHDAD - A powerful jihadist group pushing toward Baghdad is waging a parallel war online, flooding social media with updates and riding the football...

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2014 (AFP) - The US House of Representatives approved late Thursday a bill that would restrict the electronic surveillance powers of...