The indomitable empire of Facebook is being assailed by a volley of arrows from Europe. The latest struck on Thursday: a £94m fine from the European commission for providing misleading information in 2014 when the commission was doing a merger review on Facebook’s...

AKAMAI HAS WARNED that, while the volume of DDoS attacks has so far declined in 2017, a proliferation of Mirai-style hack on IoT devices means that bigger attacks could be just around the corner. The content distribution company, whoch accounts for as much as 30 per...

The world's largest private equity fund, backed by Japan's Softbank Group and Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised over $93 billion to invest in technology sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics."The next stage of the...

Hur hade det varit om 1600-tals personligheterna på tavlorna log lite mer? Nu vet vi. Med hjälp av en applikation till telefonen har de gamla målningarna fått en lite gladare uppsyn – och även svenska kungar har fått ett leende på läpparna.Engelsmannen Olly Gibbs har...

MOZILLA HAS taken another big step on the road to finally eradicating that puss-oozing skank Flash from the face of the earth.As planned, from Firefox 55, the malevolent has-been plug-in will be "Ask to Activate" meaning that each instance of Flash content will...

NHS trusts are experiencing disruption one week after a cyber-attack caused havoc in more than 150 countries.The unprecedented ransomware breach froze computers across the health service last Friday, with hackers threatening to delete files unless a ransom was...

Password manager LastPass has added a new feature to its software: the ability to store two-factor authentication codes. This is great news. For hackers.Increasingly, people with sense use two-factor auth as a way of ensuring that it is much harder for miscreants to...

SAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams is the guy who opened up Pandora’s box. Until he came along, people had few places to go with their overflowing emotions and wild opinions, other than writing a letter to the newspaper or haranguing the neighbors.Mr. Williams — a Twitter...

North Korea's main spy agency has a special cell called Unit 180 that is likely to have launched some of its most daring and successful cyber attacks, according to defectors, officials and internet security experts.North Korea has been blamed in recent years for a...

With the clock ticking on whether a global hacking attack would wipe out his data, Bolton Jiang had no intention of paying a 21st-century ransom.Since a week ago, when the malware first struck, Mr. Jiang had been fixing and replacing computers at the electronics...

For Kris Hagerman, chief executive of UK-based cyber security firm Sophos Group Plc (SOPH.L), the past week could have been bad. The WannaCry "ransomware" attack hobbled some of its hospital customers in Britain's National Health Service, forcing them to turn away...

For whatever reason, smartphones have caused people to let their guard down — and scammers are taking advantage of the fact that many people will open just any text or email they receive on their phone.But as these scams continue to evolve, criminals are still finding...