The Blackphone, a new super-secure Android handset is now on sale. The Blackphone offers encryption technology that makes snooping on calls or...
In a world-first case, biometric facial recognition software has been used to convict an armed robber, with a Chicago robber “matched” from...
On the one year anniversary of Edward Snowden's public revelations of mass surveillance conducted by the U.S. National Security Agency we look...
In an embarrassing breach of security, the passport numbers of members of the England Football squad have been accidentally tweeted out by...
eBay customers should change passwords following this latest high profile breach. The Internet giant says the hack exposed names, addresses, phone numbers,...
A Chicago artist has created a cheap, effective way for the public to fight back against the growing profusion of security cameras...
So-called phone hacking makes the headlines again, as new revelations are made. Have you properly secured your mobile phone voicemail?
Phil Zimmermann invented the most widely used system of email encryption in the world - and says that Fortune 100 companies are...
The photo-sharing app Snapchat, popular with youngsters for its photos which would exist briefly then “disappear forever” has admitted that the photos...
If you have an account on link-shortening service Bitly, you should take steps now to protect your account.
Young people are seriously worrried about connected gadgets when it comes to privacy - worrying that 'connected' gadgets such as Smart TVs...
Hackers targeting sensitive information or stealing from retailers work at such speed that customers often notice data breaches first - and for...
The source of the bug, which has affected at least 500,000 sites and millions of users, was a small programming error made...
When parents post photographs and information about their children to social media, what are the privacy implications for those children when they're...
The National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance activities revealed by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden appear to be taking a serious toll on...
Samsung is the most popular brand of smartphone among a large portion of the adult population - adulterers, with the Korean handsets...
A new Harris poll shows that revelations about the National Security Agency’s digital surveillance activities are changing online behavior for many Americans...
A young MIT student has invented a new system for storing data which could offer protection against unscrupulous colleagues - and even...
Starting today, Gmail will use an encrypted HTTPS connection to check or send email, regardless of what platform users employ to access...
Facebook’s ‘Deepface’ photo-matching software can now ‘recognize’ human faces with an accuracy just a fraction of a percentage point behind human beings...
Smartphone apps and home equipment for scanning brainwaves could lead to a future in which governments or companies misuse such data as...