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OTTAWA - Canada has also been electronically eavesdropping on Canadians and others, scouring global telephone records and Internet data for patterns of suspicious activity,...

JERUSALEM - Israel has been the target of a growing number of cyber attacks from Iran and its militant allies Hezbollah and Hamas, Prime...

WASHINGTON - The United States' top intelligence official angrily defended his government's secret monitoring of Internet users Saturday, insisting the vast operation is both...

SAN FRANCISCO - Google chief Larry Page on Friday branded Internet spying a threat to freedoms and called for governments to be more revealing...

WASHINGTON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday he fears the whistleblower who exposed a vast US surveillance program could face the same fate...

WASHINGTON - The White House defended phone-tapping as a vital tool to combat terrorism Thursday but a further wave of revelations about a vast...

WASHINGTON - A group of lawmakers proposed legislation Thursday that would deny US entry and freeze the assets of foreign nationals involved in hacking...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will name UN ambassador Susan Rice as his new national security advisor Wednesday, months after her hopes of becoming...

FORT MEADE - The computer hacker who turned in Bradley Manning said Tuesday the tormented US soldier had never talked about helping Al-Qaeda after...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will tell Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he must deal with cyber spying and hacking of US targets that...

BRUSSELS - NATO defence ministers agreed Tuesday to set up rapid reaction teams to help defend the military alliance against a growing number of cyber-attacks, many of them...

WASHINGTON - The US manufacturing lobby on Monday said President Barack Obama should get tough with President Xi Jinping on alleged  Chinese cyber spying and what it...

WASHINGTON - The FBI is stepping up its effort to get broader authority to put "wiretaps" on the Internet to catch criminals and terrorists.

BRUSSELS - Defence ministers from NATO's 28 member states meet on Tuesday with cyber-defence top of the agenda, amid concerns about the threat posed by increasing cyber-attacks, many...

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT - The United States must develop "rules of the road" with China and other countries to mitigate cyberthreats, Pentagon...

WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday lifted a ban on sales of communications equipment to Iranians and opened access to Internet services and...

BEIJING - A Pentagon report accusing Chinese hackers of accessing US weapons designs contained "misjudgements", a spokesman for Beijing's defence ministry said Thursday, adding...

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian police have been cooperating with authorities abroad to stem a global online currency operator that is being probed in the...

TAIPEI - Taiwan is preparing to launch a fourth cyberwar unit, a local newspaper reported Wednesday, in response to what it claims is a...

SYDNEY - Using the Internet to spy and steal sensitive data is standard practice by all countries, according to the security chief of controversial...