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Hackers who breached Google’s network in 2010 obtained access to the company’s system for tracking surveillance requests from law enforcement, according to a news report.

In an effort to unmask a leaker who fed a reporter classified information about North Korea, FBI investigators tracked the journalist’s movements in and out of a government building, obtained copies of his phone records and personal e-mails and also …

It was a watch so beautiful, so elegant, so precise, that it could only have been meant for royalty. Then it vanished without a trace.    |    Photo: David Silberman/Getty Images The tiny Simca 1000 Sedan puttered through the …

In the wake of the AP scandal, in which federal investigators obtained the phone records of journalists using only a subpoena, four lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House that would prevent federal agencies from seizing any phone records without …

Four leading hackers from LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous, were sentenced today to between two and two-and-a-half years in prison in London for their roles in hacking Sony and a series of other targets in 2011.

Attorney General Eric Holder became the White House’s highest ranking official Tuesday to support sweeping privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.

Sabeen Mahmud has short-cropped hair and rectangular glasses; she’d fit right in hunched over a laptop at Philz or behind the counter at one of Apple’s Genius Bars. Her resume matches her style. She’s founded a small tech company, opened …

A prominent computer security researcher says he recently rejected a request by a Saudi telecommunications company to help it spy on mobile customers.

How a career con man made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online—and pulled off a federal sting that cost Google $500 million.

The Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records for reporters and editors who work for the Associated Press news agency, including records for the home phones and cell phones of individual journalists, apparently in an effort to uncover a leak.

The Supreme Court on Monday for the first time backed patents for a self-replicating technology — Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” soybeans — along with its licensing agreement that allows farmers to use them only once.

Federal authorities prosecuting two brothers on allegations they plotted to blow up a high-profile target in New York City are refusing to divulge whether they cracked the case by employing a style of warrantless electronic eavesdropping first introduced by President …

California is studded with a network of sensors that can perceive almost any motion in the ground, including the slightest perturbation of the Earth’s crust. The network began as a seismology research project, to track earthquakes in this fault-ridden part …

A funny thing happened on the way to Congress yesterday. For once, lawmakers introduced a common-sense bill: the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013. If passed, the bill would give Americans freedom to do what they need — unlock, repair, maintain, …

While it’s not yet clear how dire the going-dark scenario really is, the statutory “cure” proposed by the FBI — with fines starting at $25,000 a day for companies that aren’t wiretap capable — would surely be worse than the …

Civil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That’s because buried in …

Alberto Yusi Lajud-Peña, one of a number of suspected ringleaders behind a coordinated and sophisticated global bank heist operation that netted the thieves $45 million in stolen funds, was mowed down inside his Dominican Republic home last month while playing …

Eight suspects have been charged in New York for their role a global cybercrime ring that authorities say involved the theft of more than $45 million from financial institutions around the world in two cyber heists.

Online gambling became legal in Nevada last week, but Mac users are left out of the Texas hold ‘em draw at the nation’s first state-sanctioned online site. That’s because Cupertino’s operating system isn’t supported. It’s a rather strange twist, given …

An Arizona judge has denied a motion to suppress evidence collected through a spoofed cell tower that the FBI used to track the location of an accused identity thief.