Telstra has copped an AU$10,000 fine after the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found it had breached ... (more)

In October 2013, KrebsOnSecurity published an exclusive story detailing how a Vietnamese man running an online identity theft service bought personal and financial records on Americans ... (more)

Streaming television service Aereo has been forced to shut down - at least for now - in Salt Lake City and Denver. A panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said on Friday that ... (more)

Security researchers have developed a password storage system that uses inexpensive hardware to prevent the cracking of passwords - even the most common and weak ones such as "123456," ... (more)

How good are you at telling the difference between words written by a human and words written by a computer? Maybe after taking the Bot or Not test, you'll better understand how research ... (more)

Google is "pretty sure" your data is safe, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said Friday at a panel discussion at South by Southwest Interactive. Google has upgraded the encryption ... (more)

A portable music player that promises better sound fidelity than MP3s is set to launch on Kickstarter with backing from veteran rocker Neil Young. The PonoPlayer will be available ... (more)

Comcast customers can now buy access to “House of Cards” season 1 through their cable set-top box and watch it across multiple devices - no Netflix subscription required. The ... (more)

Apple has just released iOS 7.1, the first major update to iOS 7. The new update provides a variety of security and stability fixes, some speed improvements, and UI tweaks that refine ... (more)

In a rare public talk via the Web, fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden urged a tech conference audience Monday to help "fix" the U.S. government's surveillance of its citizens. He ... (more)

Twitter has squashed a "rare" bug that allowed non-approved followers to access the hidden tweets of tens of thousands of its users. The microblogging firm said in a blog post on ... (more)

In July 2012, the United Nations Human Rights Council issued the first-ever UN resolution affirming that human rights in the digital realm must be protected and promoted to the same ... (more)

Billions of people around the world do not trust the internet, claims European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes. Following allegations that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ... (more)

Earlier this week, The Linux Foundation announced that it would be working with edX, a non-profit online learning site governed by Harvard and MIT, to make its “Introduction to Linux” ... (more)

The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has described as a massive hacker attack that stole hundreds of millions of dollars ... (more)

Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced massive hacker offensives last month, coming under some 150,000 DDoS attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said ... (more)

Smokey Robinson sued his ex-wife, Claudette Rogers Robinson, seeking declaratory judgment that he may terminate and "recapture" the copyrights to all the songs he wrote during their ... (more)

U.S. retailers are digging in their heels over their need for PIN authentication for Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV) smartcard use here. Visa and MasterCard want retailers to migrate ... (more)

Leaks of upcoming versions of Microsoft's software are nothing new, but it's a little surprising when the source is Microsoft itself. The Spring update to Windows 8.1, known as Update ... (more)

The world's biggest smartphone maker, Samsung, has launched a free music streaming service called Milk Music. The service, currently only available on its Galaxy range of smartphones ... (more)

T-Mobile is offering its customers a free data upgrade. The company announced Friday that it is doubling the amount of data customers can use per month on its standard 4G LTE service ... (more)

AT&T is cutting the price of its 2GB Mobile Share Value Plan. The company announced Saturday that starting tomorrow - Sunday - customers with one smartphone can sign on to the 2 ... (more)

National security reporters are a new kind of political refugee, but for the first time they've had an extremely powerful opponent without an effective public relations strategy. Those ... (more)

If the skies are clear where you live on Sunday night (March 9), you'll be able to see a waxing gibbous moon shining high in the southern sky, and glowing brightly well above it will ... (more)

In the early days of the Internet, user privacy meant going online with no one else in the room. Things are much different today, largely because the de-facto business model of the ... (more)

Andreas Antonopoulos, a well-known figure in the Bitcoin community and the Chief Security Officer of Blockchain.info, has decided to raise money (in bitcoins, naturally) to give to ... (more)

Last month, in a filing with the notoriously secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the United States said that it wants to keep existing records beyond the existing ... (more)

Tennessee is one of 20 states that have restrictions on municipal broadband networks, enacted to protect private Internet service providers from competition. Now, though, there are ... (more)

The developers of Yik Yak, an app that works as an anonymous message board for up to 500 people in close proximity to one another, have selectively disabled the app's use in Chicago ... (more)

The UK's main abortion provider is to appeal against a £200,000 fine imposed after an anti-abortion campaigner hacked its website and accessed the names and telephone numbers of thousands ... (more)