Concern is growing over the export of surveillance equipment which can track the movements of anyone carrying a cellphone. Such technnologies are...
One of England’s greatest-ever cricketers, Sir Ian Botham, appeared to have been the victim of a Twitter hack yesterday as an obscene...
Online privacy has gone from being a minority concern to something that worries the man in the street - after a study...
An ultra-secure phone claimed to be the first privacy-focused smartphone on sale swiftly fell victim to a security researcher - who hacked...
The privacy and security of medical records is a matter of concern to many Americans now that most are now stored electronically,...
For several years, FBI agents have been taking an unusual approach to detective work online - using malware against suspects who have...
Users of the online privacy service Tor - designed to allow users to access hidden sites anonymously - may have been unmasked...
If intelligence and law enforcement agencies have a genuine need to spy upon some communications then it should not be via a...
The developers of the Tor online privacy service are fixing a weakness which could have exposed the identities of hundreds of thousands...
A new project aims to protect homes and small businesses from the security failings of Wi-Fi routers, a problem which has repeatedly...
A new kind of web tracking tool bypasses the protections privacy-conscious web users rely on and is already being used to track...
New facial recognition technology which can instantly identify people from any digital image in seconds is being trialled in the UK for...
An artist has created what he claims to be an ‘uncrackable’ mixtape, using freely available encryption tools and housed on a home-made...
LastPass has gone public about a couple of security holes that were found in its popular online password management software. That's enough...
Files sent as a link from Google Drive could have shared more than their senders intended, Google admitted this week - in...
How are YOU supposed to remove your house from Google Street View if you don't like the idea that Google drove one...
Internet surveillance by America's National Security Agency (NSA) has been further exposed by two new developments: the analysis of leaked NSA surveillance...
A new computer vision attack could allow Google Glass wearers to steal passwords typed in on nearby tablet or smartphones - even...
With EPIC filing an FTC privacy complaint against Facebook, which is already the subject of a Consent Order due to a previous...
A feature in newer Android phones puts users' privacy at risk - effectively broadcasting an accurate location history over the air even...
European privacy regulators have demanded an explanation from Facebook over its alleged “psychological experiment”, in which thousands of unknowing site users’ News...