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South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Friday appointed an army general to the new post of national cyber-security tsar, tasked with defending against North...

Snapchat, the social network known for its disappearing messages, released its first transparency report Thursday showing hundreds of requests from US and foreign law...

Google said Thursday that malware infections on Android devices have been cut in half in the past year following security upgrades for the mobile...

A massive power cut caused chaos and shut down public transport across Turkey on Tuesday, with the government refusing to rule out that the...

Seoul - Concerned by the growing threat of cyber-attacks from North Korea, South Korea's cabinet on Tuesday approved the creation of a new presidential...

The software collaboration website GitHub said Monday it was fighting off a cyber attack since late last week, and security analysts said the effort...

Nigeria's electoral commission admitted on Saturday that its website had been hacked, as the country's crucial presidential and parliamentary elections were hit by technical...

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday decided to appoint an investigator to look into violations of digital privacy rights, following revelations of large-scale...

North Korea on Thursday denied involvement in cyber-attacks on South Korea's nuclear power plant operator, accusing Seoul of fabricating a story to shift the...

Big US technology firms joined a coalition of activists Wednesday urging Congress to pass a law scaling back government surveillance ahead of key deadline.

China's cyberspace administration is "complicit" in attacks on major Internet companies including Google, an anti-censorship group said Wednesday, calling on firms worldwide to strengthen...

When Florida police got a call from a man who said he shot four people at rapper Lil Wayne's house this month, they responded...

Washington  - Attackers hacking into American computer networks appear to be leaving "cyber fingerprints" to send a message that critical systems are vulnerable, the...

Technology firms will ultimately prevail in their efforts to use strong encryption on devices that cannot be accessed by the government, Google executive chairman...

Premera Blue Cross said Tuesday its computer network had been hacked, potentially exposing data from 11 million people, in the second recent such attack...

The new Windows 10 operating system will allow users to sign in to a device without a password by using biometrics, including facial recognition,...

Somewhere on Earth a computer hacker types a malicious command and hits enter. Half a world away, an urban commuter train speeds out of...

Americans have been stepping up efforts to keep their data private since the revelations about vast US government surveillance programs, a survey showed Monday....

Yahoo said Sunday it plans to introduce "end to end encryption" for email this year to boost privacy protection for users concerned about snooping...