A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously threw out the conviction of an Arkansas man for stealing the personal data of about 120,000 Apple iPad users, including big-city mayors, a TV news anchor and
People clinging to Microsoft’s aging Windows XP operating system will be left to fend off cybercriminals by themselves come Tuesday. On April 8, the US software colossus will stop patching newly found
Microsoft Corp., which has skewered rival Google Inc. for going through customer emails to deliver ads, acknowledged Thursday it had searched emails in a blogger’s Hotmail account to track down who was
Google said Thursday its popular Gmail service would use encryption to thwart snooping, in the latest move by the tech sector reassuring customers following revelations about US surveillance programs.”Your email is important
Any regulation of the Bitcoin crypto-currency should involve international cooperation to avoid loopholes, Japanese vice finance minister Jiro Aichi said on Thursday. Commenting on the closure this week of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox,
Bitcoin users in Tokyo will gather on Thursday for a meeting set to be dominated by the shuttering of the Mt Gox exchange amid claims of a multi-million dollar theft. Dozens of
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has sent subpoenas to Mt. Gox, other Bitcoin exchanges, and businesses that deal in Bitcoin to seek information on how they handled recent cyber attacks, a source
The sudden disappearance of one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges only adds to the mystery and mistrust surrounding the virtual currency, which was just beginning to gain legitimacy beyond the technology enthusiasts
Several prominent computer security experts have cancelled appearances at the largest annual conference on security technology and are now lending their names to a rival gathering as discord in the industry over
President Barack Obama will announce on Friday a major overhaul of a controversial National Security Agency programme that collects vast amounts of basic telephone call data on foreigners and Americans, a senior
The U.S. National Security Agency has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on people’s travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions, Britain’s Guardian
The public debate over the fate of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden intensified on Sunday with conservative US Senator Rand Paul calling for a light prison term as punishment for