WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Mochael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after...

SEATTLE — When malicious software first became a serious problem on the internet about 15 years ago, most people agreed that the biggest villain, after the authors of the damaging code, was Microsoft.As a new cyberattack continues to sweep across the globe, the...

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Israel was the country whose security secrets President Trump revealed to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office. This only added to the controversy surrounding the meeting, whoch the White House has tried desperately and...

A group that has taken credit for leaking NSA cyber spying tools - including those used in the recent WannaCrypt global ransomware attack - has threatened in a blog it is believed to have authored to release more recent code to enable hackers to break into the world's...

The commentary around IIS Fraunhofer and Technicolor terminating their MP3 licensing program for certain MP3 related patents and software has been amusing. While some are interpreting this development as the demise of the MP3 format, others are cheering about MP3s...

A U.S. judge granted a partial injunction against Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] in a high-profile trade secrets case with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit, ordering Uber to promptly return any Waymo files downloaded by a former Waymo engineer.The...

The U.S. government segregates terrorism cases into two categories — domestic and international. This database contains cases classified as international terrorism, though many of the people charged never left the United States or communicated with anyone outside the...

Siri has been credited with saving yet another person’s life. Christopher Beaucher of Wilmot, New Hampshire, says that if it weren’t for the AI-powered virtual assistant, he may not have lived to tell the tale of how he escaped an exploding house.Over the weekend,...

Föreställ dig en läkare som hittar cancer i en patient, men i hemlighet låter sjukdomen förbli obehandlad. Självklart är det en fruktansvärdtanke.Men när det gäller förra veckans stora cyberattack är sanningen att angreppet aldrig ägt rum om bara säkerhetstjänsterna...

A machine used to encrypt the messages Hitler sent to his generals has been recreated online as a tribute to the British codebreaker who cracked it.A virtual version of the Lorenz SZ42 machine has been made available so people can see how it worked.It has been created...

FURTHER READINGWanna Decryptor ransomware: What is it, and how does it work?I’ve finally found enough time between e-mails and Skype calls to write up the crazy events that occurred over Friday, whoch was supposed to be part of my week off. You’ve probably read about...

The WannaCry "ransomware" cyber attack hobbled Chinese traffic police and schools on Monday as it rolled into Asia for the new work week, while authorities in Europe said they were trying to prevent hackers from spreading new versions of the virus.In Britain, where...