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Twitter confirmed that its violations department had suspended some 10,000 accounts on 2 April “for tweeting violent threats".

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International law enforcement activity has taken out the botnet used by the Beebone worm - polymorphic malware that threatened thousands of computers worldwide. Botnet? Polymorphic? Downloader? We explain ...

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Facebook has responded to privacy claims made by Belgian researchers but admitted that a "bug" may have caused inadvertent tracking of some users.

Pinterest and Yammer are the latest official mobile apps that didn't do HTTPS correctly, leaving users at risk of imposters and phishing.

Human Rights Watch and EFF are suiing the drug agency, along with the FBI, DOJ and the USA itself, to make sure they torch the bulk surveillance program and purge its mountain of records.

In a landmark case, a Hollywood studio won the rights to unmask alleged pirates of the movie The Dallas Buyers Club.

Linux Australia had a bit of a nightmare Easter Weekend. While the rest of us were loafing at the beach, the Penguinistas from Down Under were owning up to a pretty extensive cyberintrusion.

Like many apps, 'After School' has decided to grow up and start taking toxic chat and threats of violence seriously. It's a welcome sign of maturation.

It's unclassified, but it's still highly sensitive, officials say. It's just one non-public set of data gleaned by intruders who may have slipped in via the State Department's system.

OS X gets a brand new photo application called, er, Photos, but the security fixes are the real reason you want these updates.

The FBI is advising all WordPress site owners to update and patch their installation and plugins. If you're not already doing so, now is a great time to start. We offer tips on how to get started.

Yes, the wireless cam was possessed - by the spirit of whoever hijacked the Foscam IP device to spy on a Minnesota couple's baby.

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The Feds have been arguing for years that disclosing the protocol, SOP 303, would endanger people.

A new lawsuit alleges Facebook violated users' privacy rights to build world's largest privately held database of facial recognition data.

Firefox 37.0 added support for a security-enhancing feature in HTTP/2 known as Alternative Services. Unfortunately, the new feature had a rather bad HTTPS security hole all of its own...

Policymakers from Britain's Conservative Party call for oversight by an independent regulator with the power to compel ISPs to block sites that fail to include effective age verification.

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