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Far more than a translation of its English counterpart, Arabic Wikipedia has 690,000 registered users who’ve authored more than 240,000 articles. Many of the articles reflect a Middle Eastern worldview entirely different from the Western one, and their writers navigate …

A clearly frustrated U.S. intelligence chief complained today that America’s adversaries are changing the way they communicate electronically in the wake of the leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Security scanners used by airports around the country to detect weapons and other banned items in carryon luggage can be manipulated to conceal items from screeners, according to two researchers who examined the system.

After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco …

Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyber spying operation that has been alive since at least 2007 and uses techniques and code that surpass any nation-state spyware previously spotted in the wild.

In legal circles, the biggest “off the board” bet going is whether the Supreme Court this term will decide the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk telephone metadata program, and resolve the issue once and for all. Virtually every expert agrees …

The government contested a former Stanford University student’s assertion that she was wrongly placed on a no-fly list for seven years in court despite knowing an FBI official put her on the list by mistake because he checked the “wrong …

The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.

Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder and owner of the underground drug emporium Silk Road, has been indicted in New York.

Four tech giants embroiled in the government’s secret PRISM collection program reported today that they had received classified national security demands for the contents of at least 59,000 user accounts during the first half of 2013.

Why the appellate court challenge pitting encrypted email provider Lavabit against the Justice Department is so important? It’s the only publicly documented case where a district judge has ordered an internet company to hand over its SSL key to the …

The founder of digital currency Liberty Reserve says he was indicted and arrested last year after refusing to hand over the source code for his system to the FBI.

A U.S. terrorism defendant who was formally notified that he was spied on by the NSA filed a challenge to the constitutionality of the surveillance today, in a case likely to be litigated all the way to the Supreme Court.

President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address needed surveillance reforms concerning NSA-introduced cryptography vulnerabilities. Privacy advocates and business interests were crossing their fingers that the chief executive would announce he was following the …

A Russian hacker who developed the widely used Spy Eye banking Trojan has pleaded guilty today to creating the malicious toolkit that was considered one of the most popular hacking tools for two years.

In Obama’s speech 10 days ago outlining surveillance reforms, the president promised he would allow corporations like Google, Apple and Microsoft to be more transparent with their customers about NSA spying. Today, we learned what that means. The Justice Department …

The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk …

While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated …

More than 1.1 million customers were affected in the recent hack that affected high-end retailer Neiman Marcus, the company has finally revealed.

The FBI says its learned the real secret behind the success of the nasty revenge porn website isanyoneup.com: The site operator, 27-year-old Hunter Moore, was paying a hacker to steal nude photos of innocent people right from their email accounts.