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In my last post I discussed Edward Snowden and his exposure of the mass electronic surveillance by the US government of its citizens via its PRISM program.

Snowden slipped out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday in a cloak-and-dagger operation overseen by his Russian lawyer, but unnoticed by the hordes of media trying to follow his every move

Washingtonians rarely miss an opportunity to tell you how technological innovation has outpaced the law.

A new study of the ZeroAccess rootkit, believed to have infected 2.2 million home networks worldwide at the end of last year, has demonstrated that it continues to evolve, with new techniques to evade detection and hinder removal.

The HTTPS cryptographic scheme, which protects millions of websites, is susceptible to a new attack that allows hackers to pluck e-mail addresses and certain types of security credentials out of encrypted pages, often in as little as 30 seconds.

While the National Security Agency has gotten most of the recent flak for spying on people via the Internet and cell phone records, the Federal Bureau of Investigation appears to be doing some cyber spying of its own.

The number of requests for Twitter user data from governments around the world continued to grow in the first half of 2013, the microblogging service said in its semiannual transparency report, released Wednesday.

Black Hat 2013 Security researchers say they have developed an interesting trick to take over Gmail and Outlook.com email accounts – by shooting down victims’ logout requests even over a supposedly encrypted connection.

Finally, after two years from the first release of the feature and hoping that the users will switch to https, Facebook enforces now https to all users by default.

Panda Security released Panda Cloud Office Protection (PCOP) 6.7, which will enable users to roll-out Panda Cloud Systems Management (PCSM) automatically on their network.