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Today, European Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, will unveil the new European Privacy Directive, designed to safeguard personal, identifiable information that is stored …

A Chinese computer programmer has been arrested in New York for having allegedly copied and stolen the source code of software developed by the US Treasury Department, …

As the Internet-wide blackout in protest of the anti-piracy PIPA and SOPA legislations was slowly winding down, US authorities have announced the seizure and takedown of …

The Patras program, used by the German Federal Police for surveillance and tracking of suspects and their vehicles via GPS, has recently been suspended for a while and its …

It took three years and 178.5 million yen (around $2.3 m) to develop a defensive cyber weapon that can track down the sources of cyber attacks and disable them, but Fujitsu …

When Operation AntiSec was started by Anonymous and LulzSec back in June and the two groups called on “any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or …

Anytime you travel internationally, you risk a broad, invasive search of your laptop, phone, and other digital devices – including the copying of your data and seizing …

A group of Anonymous-affiliated hackers has made public a considerable amount of detailed personal information of the majority of the 86 US Senators that voted for the …

Eastern European and Russian hackers mostly steal financial information, while Chinese ones are mainly after intellectual propriety or other sensitive data, say security …

The official website (Clearusa.org) of the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail has been attacked by a hacker that goes by the handle of “Exphin1ty” who claims …

Four men and two women suspected of having taken part in a sophisticated phishing scam that targeted hundreds of UK students were arrested by the Met’s Police Central …

We are all aware of the fact that some regimes have no qualms about spying on their citizens in order to keep tabs on dissenters. Nevertheless, last week’s revelation by …