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SAN FRANCISCO - A researcher who hacked into Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's profile to expose a security flaw won't get the customary reward payment...

LONDON - British authorities faced a furore Monday after they held the partner of a journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose US...

BRASILIA - Brazil said Wednesday it is moving to secure its communications through its own satellite and digital networks to end its dependence on...

MOSCOW - The planned visit to Russia of the father of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is to be kept strictly secret, with details...

SAN FRANCISCO - A tweaked version of Microsoft's Windows operating system which restores the "Start" button missed by users and updates other features will...

BANGKOK - Thai villagers on Wednesday apologized for mistaking a Google worker for a government snoop as he carried out mapping for the Internet...

OSLO - Norway's intelligence agency has blocked US company Apple from flying over Oslo to take 3D aerial photos for its map application, citing...

SEOUL - North Korea, one of the most isolated and censored societies on the planet, has unveiled what it says is a domestically-produced smartphone....

NEW YORK CITY - A New York regulator announced a probe into virtual currencies like Bitcoin Monday, saying they could be used by drug...

BOGOTA - Colombian officials will raise the issue of US electronic surveillance on Monday during a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry,...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama pledged to overhaul US secret surveillance on Friday, promising greater oversight and transparency and insisting he had no interest...

BERLIN - Germany's three biggest email providers announced Friday a partnership to bolster the security of messages sent between them in the wake of...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama met with leaders of IT and telecoms giants, including Apple, Google and AT&T, to discuss controversial electronic surveillance...

SAN FRANCISCO - An encrypted email service believed to have been used by US leaker Edward Snowden shut down on Thursday apparently as a...

MOSCOW - The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to deny rumors of his death after hackers planted a false report on Twitter...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nintendo said Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against a US website with a business model built on hacking into...

BRASÍLIA - Brazil-based American reporter Glenn Greenwald said Tuesday that he had received more than 15,000 secret US government documents from intelligence leaker Edward...

RIGA - Latvia agreed Tuesday to extradite a programmer to the United States to stand trial for his alleged role in a global cyber...

BEIJING - Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has hit back at allegations by a former CIA chief that the company spies for Beijing, labeling them...

MOSCOW - The founder of Russia's most popular social network VKontakte on Thursday offered a job to Edward Snowden, after the US intelligence leaker...