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The FCC's Travis LeBlanc has ordered Verizon to pay a fine of $7.4m for using private subscriber data for marketing purposes. Image:

Verizon to pay $7.4m for privacy violations

5 Sep 2014

The FTC's Edith Ramirez has ruled that Google must refund users whose children made purchase from the Google Play store without authorisation. Image: FTC

Google to repay $19m for apps bought by children

5 Sep 2014

Security expert Graham Cluley says most people are unaware that iPhones automatically back-up their information to the iCloud service where it is accessible to anyone with the right passwords. Image:

'Cloud' focus after internet hack

3 Sep 2014

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, another victim of hackers, says that the hacking activity was particularly creepy as the pictures were taken in the privacy of her own home. Image:

Celebrity iCloud hack investigated by Apple, FBI

2 Sep 2014

FBI spokesman J Peter Donald says the source of the attack on JPMorgan Chase has not been established but US authorities are working on the problem. It is unclear what information may have been compromised. Image:

Russian hackers break into JPMorgan

28 Aug 2014

Apple has been awarded damages of almost $120m in its legal dispute with Samsung – just a fraction of the more than R2bn it claimed in its application to the US District Court for patent infringements. Image:

Apple's bid to stop sales of Samsung products denied

28 Aug 2014

Retailers have been warned about the Backoff malware threat that is targeting point of sale machines to harvest credit card numbers and passwords. Image:

Backoff: malicious computer software for PoS systems

25 Aug 2014

Twitter's Dick Costolo says that images and videos of the beheading of US journalist James Foley have been removed from Twitter and posts will be monitored to remove any new postings of these gruesome pictures. YouTube has also removed the video posted on its site. Image: Twitter

James Foley's beheading removed from Twitter, YouTube

21 Aug 2014

Whistle-blower Edward Snowden tells Wired magazine that the NSA has developed a program called MonsterMind to thwart cyber-attacks by monitoring all Internet traffic and private communications all the time. Image:

MonsterMind monitors everything for NSA

14 Aug 2014

General Motors has recalled 29m cars so far this year including the most recent models of the Cadillac ATS. Image: Wikipedia

Another 300,000 cars recalled by GM

12 Aug 2014

Judge Lucy Koh has rejected the compensation offer from major technology companies in Silicon Valley who underpaid their employees as part of an anti-poaching agreement designed to keep salaries low. Image: Wikipedia

Silicon Valley staff anti-poaching settlement rejected

11 Aug 2014

Facebook's Joe Sullivan has confirmed the company has bought PrivateCore to improve security on all its servers. Image:

Facebook buys security startup PrivateCore

8 Aug 2014

David Weil, Administrator of the Labour Department's Wage and Hour Division has ordered LinkedIn to pay $6m to employees and former employees who were entitled to overtime but didn't get paid. Image:

LinkedIn must pay $6m in backpay to workers

5 Aug 2014

Paedophile John Henry Skillern was arrested after Google tipped-off police about images he was send via Gmail. Image:

Google tips-off police over child porn suspect in Texas

5 Aug 2014

Microsoft's Deputy Counsel David Howard is confident Samsung will have to pay for using Microsoft's technology as per an agreement set up in 2011. Image:

Now Microsoft sues Samsung in US

5 Aug 2014

Canada's Communications Security Establishment claims hackers from China have broken into key strategic computers to steal sensitive, often scientific data. Image: Flickr

Canada blames China for cyber-attack on science agency

30 Jul 2014

Bose sues Beats over headphone patents

Bose sues Beats over headphone patents

28 Jul 2014

US attorney Sally Quillian Yates says that each one of the people included in the indictments will be prosecuted under US law for piracy and theft of intellectual property. Image:

Android app pirates face prosecution

22 Jul 2014

Stephen Elop, responsible for Nokia Devices, says Nokia X phones will move to the Windows Phone platform and it will try to drive up sales of its Lumia model. Image: Wikipedia

Reorganisation sees Microsoft axe 18,000 jobs

18 Jul 2014

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto has opened up Mexico's telecommunications to other companies that may want to compete in a market dominated by two companies. Image: Wikipedia

Telecoms sector can compete in Mexico

15 Jul 2014

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

US snooped on Muslim-American leaders: report

11 Jul 2014

Verizon data queries nearly 150,000 in 2014

Verizon data queries nearly 150,000 in 2014

10 Jul 2014

Google's Vint Cerf says that he believes the Internet will get more intuitive through the use of artifical intelligence algorithms. Image: Wikipedia

Concerns over possible 'censorship' of the internet

4 Jul 2014

Google's Eric Schmidt says it is time for the USA and Cuba to settle political differences and stop the blockade and sanctions. Image:

Cuba keeps Google blocked despite pleas

3 Jul 2014

Microsoft's Matt Tomlinson says all Outlook mails will be strongly encrypted to improve security. Image:

Microsoft improves Outlook mail security

2 Jul 2014

Google's Eric Schmidt, working with a panel of advisers, is removing harmful content about European individuals from Google search engines based on requests received by the company. Image: .

Google starts removing information from search engines

27 Jun 2014

McAfee's Vincent Weafer says malware is a growing threat for smartphones. Image:

More and more apps vulnerable to malware

25 Jun 2014

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says 'kill' switches on phones are highly effective deterrents against the theft of smarphones. Image: Politico

'Kill' switches added to Android and Microsoft smartphones

23 Jun 2014

Elon Musk says Tesla will not pursue people using or copying its technology. Image: Twitter

Tesla patents available to 'open source movement'

17 Jun 2014

Microsoft's lawyer David Howard says that the US court order it is challenging is unenforceable for servers in another country. Image:

Microsoft fights USA court order over overseas data

13 Jun 2014

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The FCC's Travis LeBlanc has ordered Verizon to pay a fine of $7.4m for using private subscriber data for marketing purposes. Image:

Verizon to pay $7.4m for privacy violations

5 Sep 2014

The FTC's Edith Ramirez has ruled that Google must refund users whose children made purchase from the Google Play store without authorisation. Image: FTC

Google to repay $19m for apps bought by children

5 Sep 2014

Security expert Graham Cluley says most people are unaware that iPhones automatically back-up their information to the iCloud service where it is accessible to anyone with the right passwords. Image:

'Cloud' focus after internet hack

3 Sep 2014

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, another victim of hackers, says that the hacking activity was particularly creepy as the pictures were taken in the privacy of her own home. Image:

Celebrity iCloud hack investigated by Apple, FBI

2 Sep 2014

FBI spokesman J Peter Donald says the source of the attack on JPMorgan Chase has not been established but US authorities are working on the problem. It is unclear what information may have been compromised. Image:

Russian hackers break into JPMorgan

28 Aug 2014

Apple has been awarded damages of almost $120m in its legal dispute with Samsung – just a fraction of the more than R2bn it claimed in its application to the US District Court for patent infringements. Image:

Apple's bid to stop sales of Samsung products denied

28 Aug 2014

Retailers have been warned about the Backoff malware threat that is targeting point of sale machines to harvest credit card numbers and passwords. Image:

Backoff: malicious computer software for PoS systems

25 Aug 2014

Twitter's Dick Costolo says that images and videos of the beheading of US journalist James Foley have been removed from Twitter and posts will be monitored to remove any new postings of these gruesome pictures. YouTube has also removed the video posted on its site. Image: Twitter

James Foley's beheading removed from Twitter, YouTube

21 Aug 2014

Whistle-blower Edward Snowden tells Wired magazine that the NSA has developed a program called MonsterMind to thwart cyber-attacks by monitoring all Internet traffic and private communications all the time. Image:

MonsterMind monitors everything for NSA

14 Aug 2014

General Motors has recalled 29m cars so far this year including the most recent models of the Cadillac ATS. Image: Wikipedia

Another 300,000 cars recalled by GM

12 Aug 2014

Judge Lucy Koh has rejected the compensation offer from major technology companies in Silicon Valley who underpaid their employees as part of an anti-poaching agreement designed to keep salaries low. Image: Wikipedia

Silicon Valley staff anti-poaching settlement rejected

11 Aug 2014

Facebook's Joe Sullivan has confirmed the company has bought PrivateCore to improve security on all its servers. Image:

Facebook buys security startup PrivateCore

8 Aug 2014

David Weil, Administrator of the Labour Department's Wage and Hour Division has ordered LinkedIn to pay $6m to employees and former employees who were entitled to overtime but didn't get paid. Image:

LinkedIn must pay $6m in backpay to workers

5 Aug 2014

Paedophile John Henry Skillern was arrested after Google tipped-off police about images he was send via Gmail. Image:

Google tips-off police over child porn suspect in Texas

5 Aug 2014

Microsoft's Deputy Counsel David Howard is confident Samsung will have to pay for using Microsoft's technology as per an agreement set up in 2011. Image:

Now Microsoft sues Samsung in US

5 Aug 2014

Canada's Communications Security Establishment claims hackers from China have broken into key strategic computers to steal sensitive, often scientific data. Image: Flickr

Canada blames China for cyber-attack on science agency

30 Jul 2014

Bose sues Beats over headphone patents

Bose sues Beats over headphone patents

28 Jul 2014

US attorney Sally Quillian Yates says that each one of the people included in the indictments will be prosecuted under US law for piracy and theft of intellectual property. Image:

Android app pirates face prosecution

22 Jul 2014

Stephen Elop, responsible for Nokia Devices, says Nokia X phones will move to the Windows Phone platform and it will try to drive up sales of its Lumia model. Image: Wikipedia

Reorganisation sees Microsoft axe 18,000 jobs

18 Jul 2014

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto has opened up Mexico's telecommunications to other companies that may want to compete in a market dominated by two companies. Image: Wikipedia

Telecoms sector can compete in Mexico

15 Jul 2014

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

US snooped on Muslim-American leaders: report

11 Jul 2014

Verizon data queries nearly 150,000 in 2014

Verizon data queries nearly 150,000 in 2014

10 Jul 2014

Google's Vint Cerf says that he believes the Internet will get more intuitive through the use of artifical intelligence algorithms. Image: Wikipedia

Concerns over possible 'censorship' of the internet

4 Jul 2014

Google's Eric Schmidt says it is time for the USA and Cuba to settle political differences and stop the blockade and sanctions. Image:

Cuba keeps Google blocked despite pleas

3 Jul 2014

Microsoft's Matt Tomlinson says all Outlook mails will be strongly encrypted to improve security. Image:

Microsoft improves Outlook mail security

2 Jul 2014

Google's Eric Schmidt, working with a panel of advisers, is removing harmful content about European individuals from Google search engines based on requests received by the company. Image: .

Google starts removing information from search engines

27 Jun 2014

McAfee's Vincent Weafer says malware is a growing threat for smartphones. Image:

More and more apps vulnerable to malware

25 Jun 2014

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says 'kill' switches on phones are highly effective deterrents against the theft of smarphones. Image: Politico

'Kill' switches added to Android and Microsoft smartphones

23 Jun 2014

Elon Musk says Tesla will not pursue people using or copying its technology. Image: Twitter

Tesla patents available to 'open source movement'

17 Jun 2014

Microsoft's lawyer David Howard says that the US court order it is challenging is unenforceable for servers in another country. Image:

Microsoft fights USA court order over overseas data

13 Jun 2014

Analyst Graham Cluely suggests not using TweetDeck until there is certainty about the security patch. Image:

TweetDeck sinks then floats again

13 Jun 2014

CSIS Fellow, James Lewis says cybercrime is a low-risk growth industry offering great returns. Image:

Global cybercrime worth $445bn

10 Jun 2014

Google's Brandon Long has confirmed that the company is working on new versions of Chrome that will make email messages more secure by encrypting them. Image: Google

Google's new Chrome makes email more secure

5 Jun 2014

A character on the Creepy Pasta website allegedly prompted two girls to stab a friend 19 times. Image:

Girls say internet character "made them do it"

4 Jun 2014

Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev has been detained and charged in the US for creating a sophisticated cybercrime syndicate. Image:

International raid targets data-stealing computer virus: US

3 Jun 2014

The image of a thief taken using Lookout's 'theftie' system and sent to the owner of the phone so the thief can be apprehended by police. Image:

'Thefties' nab 'selfies' of smartphone thieves

30 May 2014

Hector Monsegur avoided going to jail for 124 years after doing a deal with the FBI. Known as Sabu, he was responsible for hacking hundreds of commercial and government sites around the world. Image:

US hacker turns FBI informant, walks free

28 May 2014

The Chinese government has banned all government agencies from installing Windows 8 on its computers. Image:

Microsoft to negotiate with China after Windows 8 ban

21 May 2014

GM's Jeff Boyer says the company is taking all safety issues seriously and reacting promptly to any manufacturing defects. Image:

General Motors recalls 2,9m more cars worldwide

16 May 2014

Opus Research's Greg Sterling says the ruling is "very messy". Image:

Google's EU data case raises censorship fears

14 May 2014