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Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos on Monday confronted National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers over the United States government's plan to require built-in backdoors in hardware and software made by American companies. The exchange took place at the New America Foundation's cybersecurity conference in Washington ...

Google on Monday announced a two-pronged thrust to beef up its efforts in the mobile wallet arena. ...

The money is pouring into Pebble's Kickstarter campaign, launched Tuesday, for its new smartwatch, Pebble Time ...

Citizenfour, a film documenting interviews director Laura Poitras conducted with whistle-blower Edward Snowden, won the Oscar for best documentary Sunday. The talks took place as Snowden blew the lid off the United States National Security Agency's surveillance activities ...

The United States' National Security Agency and British spy agency GCHQ have hacked into the internal computer network of Gemalto, the world's largest maker of SIM cards, and stolen the cards' encryption keys, The Intercept reported last week. Information about the government hack attacks came from files leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden ...

Google is fighting a proposed amendment to Rule 41 of the United States Criminal Code that might allow authorities to hack into computers abroad ...

Samsung has purchased mobile payments firm LoopPay to create its own digital wallet. Samsung already was an investor in the startup, along with Visa and Synchrony Financial ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced new data services running on its Azure cloud in what it has positioned as a bid to bring big data to the mainstream ...

Yandex has asked Russia's antitrust authorities to look into whether Google is breaking the country's laws by not allowing preinstallation of third-party services on Android devices. ...

Criminals using Carbanak malware have stolen up to US$1 billion from 100 financial institutions in Russia, China, Germany and the United States, Kaspersky Lab has revealed ...

Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday announced the discovery of what may be the most sophisticated malware ever ...

Remember the View-Master? You slotted a disc of slides called a 'reel' into the top, clicked the lever on the right, and were thrilled by the scenes before your eyes ...

Facebook this week announced ThreatExchange, an API-based platform for technology companies to share information on security threats ...

The Obama Administration on Tuesday announced plans to set up a national Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center to integrate all data from government agencies and the private sector, and disseminate it appropriately ...

Samsung Smart TV owners, already shaken by news earlier this week that their TVs can transmit voice commands and other private data to third parties, have been hit by another revelation -- that the devices sneak ads into movies they're watching, without the owner's knowledge or consent ...

JetBlue on Tuesday announced that it will accept payments through Apple Pay in-flight ...

Owners of Samsung smart TVs need to watch what they say if they've activated the voice recognition feature on these devices ...

The ad on Apple's job site is innocuous enough, seeking an engineering project manager for Apple Search ...

Students at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have built the island republic's first 3D-printed concept car ...

Hackers broke into the databases of Anthem Inc., the second-largest health insurer in the U.S., and stole up to 80 million customers' personal information ...