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The US Senate on Tuesday advanced a landmark measure that ends the government's bulk data collection of Americans' phone records, while reauthorizing other surveillance...

Before the National Security Agency began complaining about being shut out of encrypted devices, it helped develop software for secure communications that could be...

Hackers pose a real danger to self-driving vehicles, US experts are warning, and carmakers and insurers are starting to factor in the risk.

The US Senate failed Sunday to reach a deal that would prevent key counterterror provisions from expiring at midnight, after Senator Rand Paul blocked...

CIA chief John Brennan warned Sunday that allowing vital surveillance programs to expire could increase terror threats, as the US Senate convened for a...

Crucial national security provisions appeared likely to expire midnight Sunday as Senator Rand Paul vowed to block any last-minute votes to extend or reform...

The American man convicted of masterminding the criminal website Silk Road was sentenced in a New York court Friday to life in prison over...

With a key law underpinning US bulk surveillance programs set to expire, the future appears murky for the hotly contested data sweep efforts led...

Belgium has launched an investigation into claims of widespread espionage by Germany, which is accused of helping the US spy on Berlin's closest allies...

Hackers stole information on 100,000 taxpayers from the online computers of the US Internal Revenue Service, the federal tax agency said Tuesday.

Iran said on Tuesday it had foiled a cyber-attack on the Islamic republic's oil ministry, and that those behind the hacking attempt were based...

The US National Security Agency developed plans to hack into data links to app stores operated by Google and Samsung to plant spyware on...

Some 140 tech companies, civil liberties and privacy activists urged the White House Tuesday to pull back efforts to weaken encryption or include law...

The chief executive of United Airlines cast doubt Tuesday on claims by a security researcher about hacking the controls of a jetliner from its...

Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan where US special forces killed the al-Qaeda leader, according to...

NATO and the European Union on Thursday vowed to tighten cooperation against the "hybrid warfare" that the West accuses Russia of using in the...

The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to end the NSA's dragnet collection of telephone data from millions of Americans, a controversial program revealed...

The US strategy of "deterrence" for cyber-attacks could involve a wide range or responses, potentially including the use of conventional weapons, the nation's top...

The global terrorist threat has entered a "new phase," where media-savvy Islamist extremists are successfully drawing lone wolf attackers to their cause, the US...

The US intelligence agency NSA asked its German partner service BND to spy on the European country's engineering and technology giant Siemens, a German...