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WASHINGTON - A US Senate panel approved a bill to boost email privacy protections in a vote Thursday that followed widespread uproar over the...

DAMASCUS - Most communications were down in Syria on Thursday and clashes near the capital closed off the road to Damascus airport, monitors said,...

WASHINGTON - Facebook has run into a fresh attack from privacy activists after the huge social network modified policies on how it manages users'...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook is telling its users to ignore rumors spreading on the social network that they need to post a statement to...

TEHRAN - An Iranian MP has blamed the death in detention of blogger Sattar Beheshti on the country's cyber police, news agency Fars reported...

WASHINGTON - US and European authorities said Monday they seized 132 websites in a transatlantic law enforcement crackdown on online sellers of counterfeit merchandise....

NEW YORK - A bogus news release prompted several websites to run incorrect articles about Google making a $400 million acquisition of a wireless...

ANKARA - A group of Internet hackers appeared before an Ankara court on Monday on charges of terrorism, the first time alleged cyber criminals...

LONDON - A British student went on trial in London on Thursday accused of a series of cyber-attacks by the hacking group Anonymous that...

JERUSALEM - An Israeli cabinet minister's Twitter account was hacked Wednesday by a pro-Palestinian outfit which posted messages in his name calling Prime Minister...

BEIJING - Chinese police have detained two people accused of inciting unrest in online postings, state media and a rights group said Wednesday in...

WASHINGTON - A US government agency has decided to buy iPhones for its employees, dumping its BlackBerry smartphones, citing their unreliability. The National Transportation...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) called Tuesday for a probe into "willful" financial misstatements by Autonomy, a British software firm it bought for over...

TBILISI - Georgia has detained 11 senior police and Tbilisi's deputy mayor for alleged cyber spying on opposition leaders, in the latest arrest of...

JERUSALEM - Israel admitted Sunday it has been targeted in a mass cyber-warfare campaign that has witnessed millions of attempts to hack state websites...

WASHINGTON - The White House said Thursday it was considering an executive order on cybersecurity after legislation on infrastructure protection failed again in the...

WASHINGTON - A US commission on Wednesday urged lawmakers to consider tighter rules on investment by Chinese state-owned firms, warning that they may pose...

BELIZE CITY - Prime Minister Dean Barrow on Wednesday urged anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, wanted for questioning in the murder of a neighbor,...

WASHINGTON - The investigation that toppled CIA chief David Petraeus has sparked fresh debate over online privacy and the government's ability to snoop into...

Official Requests Up for Web data: In First half of 2012, Google Received 20,938 Requests for Data from Government EntitiesSAN FRANCISCO - Google said...