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The government’s multi-million pound initiative to prevent minors from viewing content deemed inappropriate has been circumvented by a free Chrome plugin.

Bitcoin, the digital system behind the bitcoin currency, will become a platform for building new financial services, many of which are not possible today or require expensive and powerful third parties.

EFF, and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have been collecting, dissecting, and documenting malicious software deployed against the Syrian opposition.

The National Security Agency paid $10 million to the security firm RSA to implement intentionally flawed encryption, according to a new report.

Spain last week became the latest European nation to find Google in contravention of European privacy laws with its combined privacy policy introduced in March 2012. Spain is one of six countries taking action against Google following an investigation by the Article 29 Working Party group of European regulators and led by the French regulator, CNIL.

A Slovenian court on Monday sentenced to 58 months in jail Matjaz Skorjanc, the creator of the "Mariposa Botnet", a vast network of virus-infected computers used by criminal hackers.

Target Corp said hackers have stolen data from up to 40 million credit and debit cards of shoppers who visited its stores during the first three weeks of the holiday season in the second-largest such breach reported by a U.S. retailer.

Libelous book about MP among stuff pulled offline

Tresorit is built on patented cryptographic tech, and uses shareable client-side encryption

Spain's privacy watchdog on Thursday fined Google for breaking the country's data protection law when combining personal information from its many different online services and failing to inform users clearly on how it uses their data.