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The social network has been ordered by a Dutch court to either identify the uploader of a sex video or open its servers up to an independent investigator.

VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. But that doesn't necessarily mean "private" as in privacy. Paul Ducklin helps you understand the various levels of 'P' in 'VPN.'

Developers and advertisers have been eyeballing the apps we download to target-pitch their own wares. Apple are shuttering the peepshow.

An ICANN proposal would strip the rights of commercial site owners to use proxy services to shield their identities: a move the EFF says comes from copyright-hungry entertainment companies.

A CIA-backed company has discovered government login credentials for 47 agencies dumped on the open web.

Tor is the encrypted, anonymous way to browse the web that keeps you safe from prying eyes, right? Well, maybe not. Researcher Chloe created a honeypot website and dared Tor's exit node operators to steal the password. Sixteen of them did.

A 22-year-old Microsoft MVP has hit the media spotlight with a blog article about Samsung updates - and it's not good news for Samsung!

Oracle's Java, infamous in the past for bundling the Ask Toolbar as part of its install and update processes, is ditching Ask in favour of Yahoo's search engine.

18 months after his arrest, the Turkish national accused of masterminding a worldwide string of ATM heists netting as much as $55 million has been sent to the US to face trial.

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Carl Force confessed to routing bitcoins into his own accounts while investigating the black market site.

The CryptoWall variant of crypto-ransomware cost US businesses and consumers at least $18 million between April 2014 and June 2015. The total damages could be much higher.

Alex Yucel, co-creator of the Blackshades Remote Access Trojan (RAT), has been sentenced for selling and distributing the malware since 2010.

"Come at me Aussie police," the uploader jeered, threatening to repost the images to the Deep Web.

Wrong recipients and forgotten attachments could soon become a thing of the past with Gmail's new 'Undo Send' feature.

Privacy advocates were unsurprisingly unimpressed that Google's Chromium project silently downloaded a proprietary add-on... ...that listened to your microphone.

Uber wants location data when the app's running in the background (even when it's off on iOS), location data from IP address, and users' contact lists.

More than a year after Microsoft pulled the plug on free support for the end-of-life'd OS, hundreds of millions of users are still clinging to the drifting ship.

Four Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a tiny, low-cost device that can steal encryption keys via radio waves.

Worried that Facebook can't get your friends right in your selfies when their hair blows around? There might just be an app for that...