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At the start of 2012, the European Commission announced it is to undertake a comprehensive review of the EU’s 1995 data protection rules. Its aim is to strengthen online …

Panasonic introduced its Wearable Video Camera system. The new solution, designed for law enforcement officers in the field, will provide agencies with a comprehensive system …

A little over a month ago, the largest data breach in Utah history resulted in the compromise of Social Security numbers of some 280,000 Medicaid and Children’s Health …

Worried that technology advances will leave its agents incapable of conducting surveillance of online communications of potential criminals, the FBI is quietly lobbying top …

In a move that took the opponents of the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by surprise, the US House of Representatives has voted on the bill a …

One of the two teenagers arrested late last week in the UK has been charged with one count of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance and with one count of violating the …

Although it has never been confirmed, the speculation that the Stuxnet worm was manufactured for the express reason of disrupting the production at Iran’s Natanz uranium …

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three of the company’s executives are still waiting to see whether the request for the extradition to the US will be granted by the New …

The UK Conservative-Liberal Democratic Coalition government is trotting out a new version of the controversial Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) that was proposed by …

Security researchers rarely managed to trace hacking attacks back to a person or a specific entity, but it seems that Trend Micro experts have succeeded in tying a former …

The market for exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities has exploded in the last year, says Adriel Desautels, the founder of Netragard, a penetration testing and vulnerability …

Cyber crooks are very well aware that information is a very lucrative commodity and that every type of information has potential buyers. Take email addresses, for example. …