Reporters Without Borders has been investigating countries that operate some of the most restrictive and oppressive areas of cyberspace. Syria and Iran join China, Bahrain and Vietnam on top of the list of five spy state. But how do they manage it?

The passwords you choose, how you treat your smartphone, and what you display on your Facebook page may all seem like second nature, but the truth is you should be actively thinking about your privacy when doing any of these everyday activities.

LONDON -- Online note-taking service Evernote Corp. says it has been hacked and is resetting all its 50 million users' passwords as a precaution. The...

By James B. Kelleher CHICAGO (Reuters) - Employers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers' pass...

Blackberry may be losing ground to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices. But its struggling parent company is still known for making some of th...

"Password" has topped the list of most popular -- or worst -- passwords of 2012. This week, SplashData released its annual list of the most common...

How easy would it be for a thief to guess your four-digit PIN? If he were forced to guess randomly, his odds of getting the correct number would be on...

For years security experts have lectured us about the need to move on from this culture of passwords, but the cries have always been ignored -- perhaps until now.

Three out of five U.S. adults online fear being hacked, but 69% of these same people engage in super-risky behaviors like using the same password everywhere. Why?

It's never easy to think about real-world or online theft, but there things we can do to mitigate the risk.

On one hand, you want to think that Yahoo! is on top of its own cyber-security. On the other hand, you know its not. So, what do you need to do now?

Coming up with hard-to-guess passwords is hard enough, but it's even harder to have separate passwords for different sites and to remember new ones after you change them.

More details are surfacing about the security breach at Yahoo that led to approximately 450,000 account logins and passwords being revealed online in ...

There is one simple lesson -- if all your passwords are the same on each site you use and someone fraudulently obtains your login info for one site, they will have obtained access to all your sites in one small coup.

Really guys? A new study from the security firm Trustwave revealed the most common password is "Password1," partly because it meets all the usual p...