US whistle-blower Edward Snowden yesterday emerged from hiding in Hong Kong and revealed to the South China Morning Post that he will stay in the city to fight likely attempts by his government to have him extradited for leaking state secrets.
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When The Guardian unveiled its profile of Edward Snowden, it included a picture of the 29-year-old contractor with his laptop.
If your business is relatively small, keeps a low profile, and isn’t involved in financial services or national defense, you might assume that data security isn’t a big issue for you.
Last week’s Pentagon report disclosing the breach that allowed Chinese hackers to infiltrate some of America’s most advanced weapons systems reveals the U.S.’s gaping online vulnerabilities and compels U.S. leaders to make cyber-security an issue of national priority.
Intelligence agencies and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office working together to reach out to China on cyber security, is one of the topics discussed at a Chatham House conference.
Google says it has stopped a series of attempts to hack the email accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in what the company believes is an attempt to influence the country’s upcoming election.
The smartphone market has never been so competitive. Since the iPhone reinvented the idea of what a smartphone could be in 2007, the choices available to the consumer have never been wider or more sophisticated.
Some hackers identify vulnerabilities – serving as the internet’s immune system – but new EU legislation fails to recognise their value, argues MEP
It may seem strange to say, but there are probably a lot of people involved in IT security who long for the “good old days” when the threats were limited to computer viruses getting downloaded through email and hackers trying to break through a firewall.
Last week, Denmark’s national police revealed that, in the summer of 2012, hackers might have stolen and modified information from the police driving license register, including the personal identity number register (CPR).
