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Verizon will not include the Google Wallet mobile payment functionality in its version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, which is set to launch in the U.S. later this month ...

What a week it's been in the cybersecurity business! ...

The United States needs an overarching national authority to oversee cybersecurity efforts connected to the national power grid, an MIT study suggests ...

Google has launched a major interface redesign for YouTube. This latest change revamps the site overall. It also provides a new home page and simpler, customizable channels ...

WikiLeaks launched a new spinoff website called "Spy Files" on Thursday that will publish documents about surveillance and privacy violations worldwide ...

It appears that Google's relatively new Chrome browser has displaced Mozilla Firefox from the No. 2 spot in the worldwide browser market, following leader Microsoft Internet Explorer ...

Software from the company Carrier IQ that's preinstalled on many mobile devices sold in the United States is capable of recording many of the activities performed on those phones and potentially relaying the data back to carriers, according to security researcher Trevor Eckhart. Eckhart refers to the software as a "rootkit." ...

Windows 8 tablets may have a very difficult time competing when they finally hit the market, according to the findings of a recent Forrester Research report ...

Online music service Spotify on Wednesday announced that it's launching a series of integrated apps from various partners ...

Researchers at Columbia University have demonstrated that a remote firmware update command in some HP LaserJet printers can be hijacked, according to a report from MSNBC. In one case, a hacked printer was reportedly given commands that might cause it to get hot enough to scorch paper loaded in it ...

Research In Motion on Tuesday announced a mobile device management (MDM) solution that will include iOS and Android devices ...

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, even for malicious hackers ...

The European Union may begin an overhaul of its 1995 Data Protection Directive next year to provide one single unified body of legislation on this issue ...

Researchers at Stanford University have used nanoparticles of copper hexacyanoferrate to create electrodes that could lead to large batteries for storing excess power from the electrical grid for future use ...

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Microsoft will release an update to the Xbox 360 dashboard for all Xbox Live members on Dec. 6 ...

Six degrees of separation may be good enough for most people, but for Facebook members, it's only 4.74 degrees, according to a study conducted jointly by the social networking giant and the University of Milan ...

All things considered, this past week has been hell on security professionals ...

A small water utility in Illinois has been hacked, reportedly leading the FBI and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to look into the matter ...

What's the future for Flash devs now that Adobe has turned its back on Flash Player for mobile devices and has shifted focus to HTML 5? ...