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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is expected to name a US Navy admiral as the next head of the embattled National Security Agency, the...

JERUSALEM - Hackers attacked Israeli computers including one used by the defense ministry department dealing with civilians in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli...

BERLIN - Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden voiced fears that US "government officials want to kill me", in a TV interview to be broadcast...

LILLE- France will soon launch a 1.5-billion-euro ($2 billion) plan to defend itself against "cyber war" as a strategic priority, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le...

WASHINGTON - Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said Thursday he has no plans to return to the United States, because he would have "no...

BUCHAREST - A man suspected of breaking into the email accounts of Romanian and US celebrities, including the Bush family, under the nickname "Guccifer"...

GAZA CITY - A Twitter account of Hamas's armed wing has been suspended by administrators, the Palestinian Islamist movement said Thursday, accusing the social...

Slovenia Frees Hacker Despite US Extradition OrderLJUBLJANA  - A Slovenian higher court on Wednesday rejected an United States extradition request and released a Romanian...

WASHINGTON - Verizon on Wednesday became the first major US telecom carrier to release a "transparency report," and said it received 320,000 data queries...

BERLIN - Germany's cyber crime watchdog said Wednesday it learnt last month of the mass theft of 16 million digital identities through a criminal...

DAVOS - Hi-tech bosses on Wednesday demanded authorities change their murky ways in the wake of revelations of a vast snooping campaign by the...

SEOUL - South Korean regulators Wednesday vowed tougher penalties for financial firms and executives who fail to protect customer data, following the unprecedented theft...

BEIJING - China's Internet suffered a massive breakdown as traffic was routed to an overseas site linked to the banned religious group Falun Gong...

The number sequence "123456" has overtaken "password" as the most common worst password among Internet users, an online security firm says. Releasing its annual...

SEOUL - Tens of thousands of South Koreans flooded banks and call centers Tuesday to cancel credit cards following the unprecedented theft of the...

WASHINGTON - Figuring out where to house mountains of data collected by the National Security Agency is the thorniest challenge the US faces in...

WASHINGTON - Edward Snowden may have acted in concert with a foreign power in exposing US surveillance programs, two Republican lawmakers suggested Sunday.

WASHINGTON - It's a fully encrypted smartphone which aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It's also a sleek, attractive device that...

SEOUL - The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama curtailed the reach of massive US National Security Agency phone surveillance sweeps Friday, but said bulk data collection must...