BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to launch a version of its search engine in China that will block some websites and search terms, two...
SAN FRANCISCO: Employees at several of the world’s biggest technology companies have been exercising newfound political power where they work, pushing their...
SAN FRANCISCO: Russian intelligence agents attempted to spy on President Emmanuel Macron’s election campaign earlier this year by creating phony Facebook...
Yahoo Inc.’s secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections...
The U.S. government spent more than a decade preparing responses to malicious hacking by a foreign power, but had no clear strategy when Russia launched a...
SAN FRANCISCO / BOSTON / WASHINGTON: In the summer of 2013, Yahoo Inc. launched a project to better secure the passwords of its customers, abandoning the use...
SAN FRANCISCO: One of the world’s most popular means of communication, Facebook’s WhatsApp, is adding fully encrypted video calling to its messaging app...
SAN FRANCISCO: Egypt blocked Facebook Inc.’s Free Basics Internet service at the end of last year after the U.S. company refused to give the Egyptian...
SAN FRANCISCO: The legal showdown between Apple Inc. and U.S. law enforcement over encryption, no matter the outcome, will likely accelerate tech company...
FRANKFURT/SAN FRANCISCO: Further research into the sophisticated computer virus used to hack into hotels where the Iran nuclear talks took place has found it...
SAN FRANCISCO: Hackers have managed to penetrate computer networks associated with the Israeli military in an espionage campaign that skillfully packages...
SAN FRANCISCO: A security company has discovered a computer spying campaign that it said "likely" originated with a government agency or political group in...
LAS VEGAS: Alarmed by mounting cyber threats around the world and across industries, a growing number of security experts see aggressive government action as...
SAN FRANCISCO: If the United States attacks Syria, it will be the first time it strikes a country that is capable of waging retaliatory cyberspace attacks on...
SAN FRANCISCO: An encrypted email service believed to have been used by American fugitive Edward Snowden shut down abruptly on Thursday amid a legal fight...
LAS VEGAS: National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander jousted with a few hecklers as he defended the U.S. spy agency's surveillance programs at the...
SAN FRANCISCO: Dire warnings from Washington about a "cyber Pearl Harbor" envision a single surprise strike from a formidable enemy that could destroy power...
TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO: Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada's Universal Entertainment funnelled at least $30 million to an ex-consultant for the Philippines gaming...
SAN FRANCISCO: The scandal surrounding the sudden resignation of an adulterous CIA director has stunned the American public not just for its prominent cast of...
SAN FRANCISCO: The security company that has discovered some of the most sophisticated spying software unearthed to date says it found a related program,...
San FRANCISCO: On March 9 of this year, a piece of Facebook software spotted something suspicious. A man in his early thirties was chatting about sex with a...
SAN FRANCISCO: A double outage rocked Twitter on Thursday, as users worldwide reported significant down-time and slow service across the website and mobile...
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft's process for sharing information about security vulnerabilities in its products came under fire Friday after a roadmap for...
SAN FRANCISCO: This week's revelations that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have...