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NEW YORK  - US technology giant Apple is fighting Chinese claims that the iPhone threatens national security through its ability to track and time-stamp a user's location.

NEW YORK - An Albanian hacker who was part of an international cyberattack conspiracy that stole $14 million from ATM machines all over the world pleaded guilty Friday in New York to bank fraud.

BEIJING  - Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has accused US technology giant Apple of threatening national security through its iPhone's ability to track and time-stamp a user's location.

The source code for a version of the Tinba malware was published last week on a private underground forum, Denmark-based CSIS Security Group reported on Thursday.

For the better part of the last two years, I’ve been on a bit of a personal campaign.

Cybercriminals have developed a new Trojan largely based on Gameover Zeus in an effort to revive the botnet that was recently disrupted by international authorities.

Researchers have been monitoring the activities of a cybercriminal group that has been harvesting login credentials from the computers of various organizations across the world.

MOSCOW - The father of a Russian man detained by the US on hacking charges warned Friday his son would die without medical help, raising the stakes in the latest spat between Moscow and Washington.

Microsoft has updated its Certificate Trust List (CTL) to revoke rogue certificates issued following a breach of India's National Informatics Center (NIC).

WASHINGTON - The personal data of thousands of US government workers was not compromised in a recently reported cyber attack, officials said Thursday amid fresh allegations that Chinese hackers accessed computers housing employee information.

Researchers at Lacoon Mobile Security have uncovered an issue in Google's Gmail application for iOS they contend could help an attacker performing a man-in-the-middle attack.

BERLIN - Germany on Thursday expelled the CIA station chief in Berlin in an escalating row over alleged spying by the US that has opened the worst diplomatic rift in years between the Western allies.

MALE, Maldives  - The Maldives has said it acted alone to expel a Russian national suspected by the US of being one of the world's most prolific traffickers of stolen credit cards.

Law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity firms have teamed up in an operation aimed at Shylock, a widely distributed piece of malware used by cybercriminals to steal banking credentials.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have published a detailed analysis of a "versatile" Linux DDoS Trojan available online.

In our modern, consumer-driven world, it’s extremely rare to come across someone without a mobile phone. What started as a luxury item that enabled phone calls from outside the home has become mandatory for not only voice, but other daily functions and operations like calendars, reminders, music, pictures, apps and more.

China-based threat actors are using sophisticated malware installed on handheld scanners to target shipping and logistics organizations from all over the world.

Private communications solutions provider Silent Circle now allows customers to make encrypted voice calls in a total of 79 countries, the company announced on Thursday.

TUNIS - Hackers briefly disrupted the online voter registration process for Tunisia's parliamentary and presidential polls later this year, the electoral commission said on Thursday.

LONDON  - Britain is rushing through emergency laws to ensure the police and security services can keep accessing people's Internet and mobile phone data, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Thursday.