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Healthcare providers have garnered growing interest from hackers in recent months. More evidence of that trend appeared last week in a report on email trust ...

Valve on Monday announced that it's getting into the virtual reality hardware business ...

Google on Monday announced YouTube Kids, a new mobile app designed to deliver family-friendly video content. ...

Lenovo on Thursday came under fire for preinstalling spyware on some of its laptops ...

Apple has been awarded a patent for a virtual reality headset that can use an iPhone or iPod as a display ...

Encryption has received a lot of attention lately as a solution to the growing data breach problem, but one of the hang-ups dogging the technology has been its ability to play nice in the cloud ...

Facebook on Thursday announced a new feature for members who want to plan for their passing into the digital beyond ...

Box on Tuesday raised the curtain on a new offering that allows its enterprise customers to control the digital keys used to encrypt their data stored in the storage provider's cloud ...

Bug bounty programs are used by individual software makers to improve the quality of their products, but they can have incidental benefits for all software makers, too. One of those is to encourage bug hunters to wear a white hat instead of a black one ...

Motorists in the United States are increasingly at risk of cyberattacks and violations of privacy, as more and more technology is added to their cars ...

Some proposed rules that the Federal Communication Commission maintains will prevent content discrimination on the Internet drew fire on Thursday from two policy interest groups ...

With Wall Street breathing down its neck for growth, Twitter on Tuesday launched a new advertising initiative that aims to boost revenues and add to its more than 284 million members ...

For months, the security community has been waving a red flag about how the nascent Internet of Things could become a cybercriminal's paradise. Last week, those admonitions were given some credence when the Federal Trade Commission recommended that the makers of IoT gadgets adopt some "best practices" to protect consumers from potential violations of their privacy and security...

Since 2010, when it began paying security researchers to find flaws in its programs, Google has paid more than US$4 million to bug hunters. Now it's prepared to pay even more ...

Amazon on Wednesday announced WorkMail, a play for the enterprise email market. Offered by Amazon Web Services, WorkMail is aimed at companies that want to move their on-premises email services to the cloud ...

Twitter on Tuesday announced two new offerings that could bolster its efforts to compete with Facebook. The new tools will let users create private groups of up to 20 members; they also will be able to shoot, edit and share video from within Twitter's mobile app ...

Hackers are like gold miners. Once they find a rich vein for their malware, they mine it until it's dry.Point-of-sale terminals are such a vein, and it doesn't appear that it's one that's about to run dry any time soon ...

Google may have contributed to violating the First Amendment rights of three journalists working for WikiLeaks two and a half years ago, when it turned over to the FBI all their email, subscriber information and metadata ...

BlackBerry CEO John Chen set off a barrage of online chatter Wednesday when he proposed that any rules the United States adopts to preserve Net neutrality also should guarantee application neutrality ...

Millions of Net surfers use obvious passwords to log on to websites, but their numbers appear to be declining ...