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BANGKOK - An infamous computer hacker has been arrested in Thailand at the request of Switzerland on suspicion of hacking into bank computer systems...

SINGAPORE - Cybercriminals are exploiting the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane by luring users to websites purporting to offer the latest news in...

TOKYO - Japan held a government-wide cyber security drill Tuesday in a bid to improve coordination among public agencies and major businesses, as Tokyo...

GENEVA - The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defense of trademarks in cyberspace, the UN's intellectual property body...

PARIS - NATO said several of its websites were targeted in a "significant" cyber attack on Saturday that was claimed by Ukrainian hackers in...

GENEVA - The United States defended its controls on mass surveillance on Friday before a UN watchdog body amid a sweeping review of Washington's...

WASHINGTON  - [UPDATE] The US government announced Friday it was giving up its key role overseeing the Internet's technical operations, handing over those functions...

SINGAPORE - Singapore's central bank said Thursday it will regulate "intermediaries" for the Bitcoin virtual currency to prevent them from being used for money...

HANOVER - European IT security firms have flocked to the world's biggest high-tech fair with hopes of benefiting from the fallout from shock revelations...

WASHINGTON - Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday he had called President Barack Obama to complain that the US government is undermining confidence in...

HANOVER - Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns...

WASHINGTON - A top US lawmaker's hotly disputed charge that the CIA illegally spied on Senate staff has roiled the intelligence community, fraying ties...

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency has developed malware that allows it to collect data automatically from millions of computers worldwide, a report based...

PARIS - Shady agencies at the service of democratically elected governments are among the worst online spies in the world, media watchdog RSF said...

WASHINGTON - A senior US senator on Tuesday accused the Central Intelligence Agency of illegally searching computers of Senate staff members who were investigating...

NSA Nominee Defends Bulk Data CollectionWASHINGTON - The nominee to head the US National Security Agency on Tuesday defended the use of bulk data...

WASHINGTON - US intelligence agencies will see a five percent drop in funding under a proposed 2015 budget, officials said Thursday, after a year...

TOKYO - Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced massive hacker offensives last month, coming under some 150,000 DDoS attacks per second for several days ahead of...

WASHINGTON - Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he has no regrets over his leaks about mass surveillance programs, saying they sparked a...