米国家安全保障局（NSA）は、米国の情報機関のなかでも特に秘密主義の組織として知られている。しかしNSAは2年前に、同局のサーバーにリアルタイムで入ってくる情報の分析に使っている重要なプログラムの、コードそのものを公開した。

Samsung on Thursday promised to swiftly add a new feature to its smartphones allowing owners to entirely deactivate their devices if they are stolen, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon told The Huffington Post.

Samsung executives disclosed their plans during a closed-door meeting with Gascon and New York State Attorney...

Top state and city law enforcement officials on Thursday will announce an expansive investigation into the failure of Apple and other smartphone manufacturers to adopt measures that may limit a wave of thefts targeting their products, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told The Huffington Post.

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Even within the infrastructure of the American surveillance apparatus, the National Security Agency is notoriously secretive. The spy agency jealously guards from public view practically all aspects of its operations, from the information it collects to its plans for a massive 100,000-square-foot building being constructed in the Utah...

Apple on Monday unveiled a new iPhone feature it billed as a potent protection against thieves, seeking to stem a national crime wave focused on its ubiquitous smartphones.

The "activation lock" feature is designed to render a phone inoperable when a thief attempts to turn off another program that locates...

NEW YORK -- When Mark Klein went to work as a technician at an AT&T communications center in San Francisco in the fall of 2003, his company entrusted him with a key to every door but one: room 641A.

Access to that room, he later testified in a court deposition,...

A top-secret presidential memo published Friday marked the latest sign that the Obama administration is ready to go on the offensive in a potential cyberwar.

On Friday, the Guardian published a secret presidential directive calling on national security and intelligence officials to create a list of...

For years, four former National Security Agency analysts warned that the government was conducting widespread surveillance on domestic communications. Their warnings were largely ignored.

But on Thursday, after The Guardian newspaper reported that Verizon was turning over customer phone records to the intelligence agency as part of a secret court...

Verizon customers outraged at the revelation that the company has been turning over their phone records to the U.S. government can do little to dodge the government surveillance program, even by switching phone carriers, telecommunications experts said.

"I think it's quite probable, given the breadth of the Verizon...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has summoned representatives of the four largest smartphone makers to a summit next week where he plans to press them on their failure to address soaring thefts of their products.

Schneiderman, along with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, will question Apple, Google, Samsung...

A British telecom company says it will no longer make Yahoo Mail the default email service for its 6 million customers due to concerns their accounts are vulnerable to getting hacked.

“We will be switching customers’ email over to BT Mail, which will include the features and functions they expect...

A member of the hacker group Anonymous who considers himself an "electronic Robin Hood" pleaded guilty Tuesday to hacking a private intelligence firm and several websites, stealing e-mails and credit card data belonging to nearly 1 million people.

Jeremy Hammond, 28, admitted to helping with a December 2011...

A group assessing China's role in stealing trade secrets from American companies wants the U.S. government to consider a controversial method for protecting those firms from Chinese hackers: Let them hack back.

"Without damaging the intruder’s own network, companies that experience cyber theft ought to be able to retrieve their...

Twitter unveiled a new security feature on Wednesday to combat a recent spate of high-profile hacks of user accounts.

The feature, known as two-factor authentication, will require Twitter users to log in and then enter a six-digit code sent to their phones via text message. That way, a...

Isaac Wolf, a reporter for Scripps Howard News Service, said he was just doing a basic Google search when he stumbled upon Social Security numbers and other sensitive records lying wide open on the Internet.

But after Wolf and his colleagues revealed in a story last week...

Hundreds of residents around Oklahoma City and its suburbs struggled to communicate Tuesday after a huge tornado tore through the area and caused widespread disruptions of cellphone and Internet service.

Wireless providers urged residents to communicate via text message to save bandwidth that was overwhelmed by a spike...

Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. He spent countless hours on the Internet. He had a girlfriend. He was a student and employee at Devry University in Dayton, Ohio.

But after...

Driverless cars have been touted as an innovative way of making roads safer by reducing human error. Computers don't get behind the wheel while drunk, or tired, or texting, proponents argue.

But self-driving cars also pose new safety risks, because computers are vulnerable to something that human drivers are not...

New York's attorney general on Monday became the latest public official to pressure smartphone manufacturers to combat thefts, saying the rising number of phone robberies nationwide calls into question the companies' public commitments to protecting their customers.

In an emailed statement on Monday, Eric Schneiderman said he sent letters Friday...

As the Obama administration considers supporting a proposal to help law enforcement eavesdrop on Internet communications, experts warn the measure could have an unintended consequence: creating digital "backdoors" for cybercriminals to exploit.

The FBI has been pushing for legislation that would force companies like Google and Facebook to...