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The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU) has announced it has partnered with various investment firms that have stakes in AT&T and Verizon to demand more transparency from the two carriers when it comes to government spying.

China-based hackers may target Internet-based e-mail, data storage and other services provided overseas by such companies as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT:US) to spy on the U.S., a congressional commission found.

The current Bitcoin value has forced CryptoLocker's authors to lower decryption price to 0.5BTC

Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the democratic nature of the net is threatened by a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship".

Popular source code repository has recently been hit by a massive brute force attack compromising 40,000 accounts

If you thought you were pretty clever knowing that spyware refers to pieces of malicious code put on computers in order for cybercriminals to steal your passwords and other IDs, think again.

Security researchers at Trusteer are calling attention to a new malware toolkit that uses the I2P (Invisible Internet Project) networking layer to mask communications between infected machines and the botnet's command-and-control server.

Hackers aligning themselves with the Anonymous brand have been using a flaw in Adobe's software to launch a year-long series of attacks on US government computers that the FBI believes is still ongoing, according to Reuters.

Traffic interception has certainly been a hot topic in 2013. The world has been focused on interception carried out the old fashioned way, by getting into the right buildings and listening to the right cables.

The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security has an old-fashioned method for avoiding leaks of emails: all external communication is done via paper.