Tech News: Security & Threats

Court rules no search warrant is needed for police to track Americans' cell phone whereabouts, but says individual judges can "sparingly" require one.

Social-networking site plugs a second hole that allowed spammers to automatically post to people's pages.

The new iTunes-based social network is getting hit by comment spam since Apple apparently left it vulnerable through a lack spam or URL filtering, according to....

Proposal for a global "cyberpeace" treaty has met "a lot of resistance" from industrialized nations, says head of U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union.

Facebook users who log in from multiple devices will soon have a way to make sure they are only logged in on the computer they are currently using.

Notices of winning the lottery and requests from Russian women who want to know you better are also up there on Panda Security's ranking of decade's top Net swi...

India plans to ask the three companies to set up local servers in the country so that security agencies can monitor customer communications.

In a move that could raise privacy concerns, the microblogging site said Wednesday evening that it will record and analyze every link users click on when using....

New subscribers are asked for identification and existing subscribers are being encouraged to register their IDs with their numbers in what the Chinese governme...

Researchers claim to have cracked the quantum cryptography equipment used to cloak highly sensitive communications by banks and defense agencies.

After dropping a rape case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange last month, Sweden is reopening it for further investigation, according to reports.

Efforts to modernize cars and make them safer and more energy efficient with embedded computers and wireless technologies are also increasing the risks that the...

India is poised to send notices to Google and Skype about the government's inability to monitor e-mail and conversations.

Cogent, which sells biometric ID systems to governments, law enforcement, and businesses, will be swallowed up by the massive conglomerate.

Indian officials say they will not ban BlackBerry services while they evaluate solutions that would allow them to satisfy security requirements.

Spam message, which Facebook says it's looking into, is similar to ones used on Twitter earlier this year.

Company says it's fixing problem that first surfaced midweek for a small percentage of users whose e-mail messages were resent multiple times.

RIM offers to create industry forum to discuss ways in which India can access BlackBerry information while still preserving corporate security.

Breach in 2008 was wake-up call for Defense Department to create new cybersecurity strategy, says U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III.

Using Internet access terminals at an airport might put you at risk of losing personal information.