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A US$5 stock drop, a hacker attack on celebrities using your cloud, and charges of worker abuse in the factory of an overseas supplier aren't the kind of news a company wants to see as it's poised to announce a refresh of its iconic product, but that's what Apple must deal with this week ...

Recommending movies and TV shows you've watched on Netflix to individual Facebook friends just got easier. The company on Tuesday launched a new social recommendation feature that lets users pick and choose the contacts they'd like to interact with after viewing a video ...

If you want to see an IT pro twitch, bring up Shadow IT in a conversation ...

Hackers appear to have stolen data from JPMorgan Chase and at least one other U.S. bank in retaliation for economic sanctions against Russia ...

The recent data breach at Community Health Systems, in which Chinese hackers stole the personal information of 4.3 million patients, was another sign of a disturbing trend that security researchers at Websense have been observing for months: Healthcare providers are coming under cyberattack at an alarming rate ...

Instagram on Tuesday released Hyperlapse, a free iPhone app that takes the jitters out of time-lapse video. It was just two weeks ago that Microsoft demonstrated a similar technology that bears the same name ...

Amazon appears to be readying an advertising platform to compete with Google's AdWords ...

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has spent more than a billion dollars on full-body scanners designed to strengthen airport security. It turns out that at least one model of the scanner in use for four years -- the Rapiscan Secure 1000 full-body scanner -- easily could have been foiled by a savvy bad actor. In addition, it harbored software flaws that made it vulnerable to cyberattacks...

In a move influenced by Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's email snooping, Yahoo and Google last week announced that they were cooperating on end-to-end encrypting their webmail products ...

Dropbox, which acquired Mailbox last year, on Tuesday announced the availability of a Mac-only desktop beta version of the program. The beta is free, but you need a "betacoin" to download it. Betacoins are being emailed to existing users of the program, as well as people who sign up at the Mailbox website ...

Twitter likes to experiment with its social network from time to time, but its latest tinkering with its members' timelines appears to be ticking off more than a few tweeters ...

Microsoft has some good news for action-cam fans who like to capture their outdoor adventures in hours of nonstop video. It's found a way to bring time-lapse photography to first-person video footage ...

Yahoo and Google last week announced they'd be teaming up to secure their Web mail systems with encryption by the end of next year ...

News that a Russian gang has stockpiled more than a billion purloined user name and password combinations has revved up the Internet's reputation as a post industrial Wild, Wild West ...

USIS, the contractor that did the background checks on Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis and NSA leaker Edward Snowden, on Thursday reported that its computer systems have been breached ...

BlackBerry -- the "sick man of mobile" -- is poised for better times ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week sounded an alarm warning retailers of a family of malicious programs aimed at compromising point-of-sale systems. Attackers used such software last year in massive data breaches that nicked millions of consumer records at Target and Nieman Marcus ...

A routine scan of a Texas man's Gmail by Google has led to his arrest on child pornography possession and promotion charges ...

USB flash drives could be at risk of a pernicious attack on their firmware ...

Old tricks that have helped hackers penetrate computers for months or longer worked again last week at Goodwill and Stubhub ...