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Ever since smartphone makers started incorporating fingerprint scanners as a means of unlocking mobile phones, the Chaos Computer Club has attacked the technology with vigor ...

Concern over government surveillance has been so heightened by confidential information leaked by former intelligence hand Edward Snowden that writers in free countries are as worried as those in autocratic nations, according to a report released Monday by the PEN American Center ...

Instagram recently added some new filters -- the first time it has done so in two years ...

Check Point Software Technologies recently revealed a flaw in millions of routers that allows the devices to be controlled by hackers ...

Privacy's future appears muddy at best, judging from a survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center ...

A group of some 150 companies last week moved closer to eliminating the bane of many an online user: the password ...

On behalf of Sony Pictures Entertainment, high-powered attorney David Boies sent a letter to a number of news outlets Sunday demanding that the organizations refrain from publishing stories based on material hackers recently stole from the company and that they destroy any of the pilfered data in their possession ...

Microsoft last week began to accept bitcoins as payment for digital content purchases ...

Since the hacker group calling itself "Guardians of Peace" announced its attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment late last month, things have gone downhill for the company ...

Two password manager makers on Tuesday announced new features that allow their users to minimize the hassle of resetting passwords ...

Still reeling from a cyberintrusion that exposed massive amounts of personnel data from its entertainment division on the Internet, Sony was attacked again over the weekend. This time, hackers disrupted the company's PlayStation Network ...

Apple for two years surreptitiously removed from iPods any music not purchased at its iTunes store, prosecutors charged Wednesday in federal court ...

Twitter on Tuesday announced a revamp of its system for reporting abuse on its service ...

Cyberspies will flourish and hackers will target Apple devices more often in 2015 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in Elonis v. United States, also known as "the Facebook threat case." ...

A sophisticated malware program called "Regin" has been used in systematic spying campaigns against a range of international targets since at least 2008, Symantec reported on Sunday ...

Has software glut got you down? Do you reuse passwords because creating unique ones for all your online accounts would cause a memory overload? If your answer to those questions is yes, you may be interested in a bit of jewelry called the "Everykey," by a startup with the same name ...

Apple has removed the word "free" from download buttons in its iOS and OS X app stores, replacing it with "get." ...

IBM on Tuesday introduced Verse, its entry into the reinventing email derby. Verse, which will be available in both an enterprise and freemium edition, integrates the many ways people communicate with each other every day -- email, meetings, calendars, file sharing, instant messaging, social media, video chats and more -- into a single collaboration environment...

The U.S. Postal Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week confirmed that their computer systems were targeted in months-long cyberattacks that appear to have originated in China ...