After a receiving a U.S. intelligence assessment on Russian's interference in last year's elections, President Donald Trump vowed that he would have a team present him with a review of America's cybersecurity efforts within 90 days of taking office.But Thursday was...

Teenage hackers are motivated by idealism and impressing their mates rather than money, according to a study by the National Crime Agency.The law enforcement organisation interviewed teenagers and children as young as 12 who had been arrested or cautioned for...

The US Navy has issued new rules forbidding personnel from sharing intimate photographs without consent.They ban the sharing of images when "the person depicted had a reasonable expectation of privacy" or "without legal justification or excuse".It follows the...

Engineer Harry Huskey, who helped build many of the first ever computers, has died aged 101.Dr Huskey was a key member of the team that built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Eniac) whoch first ran in February 1946.Eniac is widely considered to be one...

Planning on going to a protest? You might not be aware that just by showing up, you can open yourself up to certain privacy risks — police often spy on protesters, and the smartphones they carry, and no matter how peaceful the demonstration, there’s always a chance...

Tech giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft focused some of their lobbying dollars in Washington over the past three months on combating President Donald Trump, as he eyed major changes to the U.S. tax code and imposed new restrictions on foreign immigrants.Both...

Social media did not take kindly to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions referring to the country's 50th state of Hawaii as just "an island in the Pacific."Using the hashtag #IslandinthePacific, many on Twitter reminded Sessions that Hawaii is in fact part of the...

A new court filing from Alphabet claims that Uber hid a key piece of self-driving technology that it allegedly copied from Waymo, the Google parent company’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary.“They were hiding a device,” Alphabet said in a filing today, supporting its...

DECADES-WORTH OF SEXUAL harassment allegations finally caught up with Bill O’Reilly this week. Fox News officially dropped the conservative pundit and face of its brand following a bombshell New York Times investigation and the weeks of flashy protests that followed,...

French voters are being deluged with false stories on social media ahead of the country's presidential election, though the onslaught of "junk news" is not as severe as that during last year's U.S. presidential campaign, according to a study by Oxford University...

LastPass has patched a severe vulnerability in their password manager that allowed attackers to bypass the company's two-factor authentication (2FA) system.According to the Martin Vigo, founder of Triskel Security and the security researcher who discovered this flaw,...

Handel med svenska personuppgifter och identitetshandlingar pågår helt öppet på nätet, rapporterar Sveriges Radio Ekot.En person som Ekot har talat med erbjuder uthyrning av sitt personnummer och bankkonto för 2.500 kronor i månaden.-Jag har dokument som jag kan...