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A suspect will be jailed for 14 months for refusing to hand over his Facebook password to detectives investigating a 13-year-old's murder.

A decades-old alliance of national intelligence partners promised to get at encrypted data last week, whether tech companies helped them or not.

As the EFF puts it, the makers of buggy bots (there are two so far) are poster children for the failure of automated takedown processes.

The search giant said that in future any company wanting to advertise these services would have to pass manual verification checks first.

What's your video screen saying about you behind your back? We take a look - or, at least, a listen...

Mozilla has announced plans to tweak Firefox's privacy controls so that advertising trackers will be blocked by default.

He was intoxicated while posting about high-profile tragedies involving the death of young people, adding torment to families' grief.

If you use Google's Chrome browser, after 4 September, the latest update will make it even harder to use in-browser Adobe Flash.

A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a Huawei router.

The multimillion dollar data buy allows Google to link what we buy in brick-and-mortar stores to what ads we clicked online.

From Google's “unnecessary risk” for Fortnite users and NSA leaker Reality Winner jailed to the Celebgate hacker going to jail, and more!

A US senator has announced a bill that would force the President to punish overseas hackers found targeting the US, or explain why he hadn't.

George Garofano has been sentenced to prison for his part in hacking into and stealing personal images from 240 iCloud accounts.

Police want to unlock the iPhone of a woman who accused a man of rape after it was alleged that she was actually stalking him.

Popular PHP package repository front end Packagist turned out to have an embarrassing command injection hole - now closed!

Air Canada has been forced to issue a password reset for all 1.7 million users of its Android, iOS and BlackBerry mobile app after up to 20,000 accounts were compromised by hackers last week.

The Wall Street Journal yesterday published an unsettling report that the owner of Yahoo, Verizon subsidiary Oath, has been quietly analysing the emails of its 200 million users to sell to advertisers.

You often have to share a lot of personal information when you check into a hotel - as cybercrooks know only too well.

Another mobile stalking app has been hacked, endangering both its customers and the victims that they spy on.

But at least now you know how to get in touch with people who might have an extra ticket...