An iOS app developed to heighten awareness of the US drone war has been rejected by Apple for the third time – just three weeks after the Electronic Frontier Foundation warned that a proposed new US bill “would have broad consequences for press freedom…

It was always to be expected that hacktivists would respond vigorously to the effective house arrest of Julian Assange within the Ecuador Embassy in London, and the UK’s apparent determination to extradite him to Sweden.

Call it Invasion of the iPhone Snatchers: a new FinFisher-based spyware is built to infect iPhones and iPads (and Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone gadgets too) in order to take over the device completely – all unbeknownst to the user.

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has discovered skyrocketing growth in the number of self-reported data breaches in the last five years, with staggering quadruple-digit figures in the mix. The average percentage increase across sectors …

The Mahdi trojan cyber-espionage attack continues to expand in the Middle East, and especially Iran, despite its detection last month.

We’re all somewhat familiar with Frankenstein’s monster: an abomination that has been stitched together, a sum of repurposed body parts, given new life that requires re-learning how to be a creature. The heady themes of Mary Shelley’s famous novel have…

The old debate on whether it would be ethical to use viruses to detect and even clean other viruses has largely been won by the law of unintended consequences: it’s simply too dangerous. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen accidentally…

A day short of 19 months after ICE’s Operation in Our Sights seized the Rojadirecta.com and .org domains, they are expected to be released within the next few hours, claims Rojadirecta.

Cyberattacks are intensifying across vectors and industry segments, according to agnostic research from FireEye.

Following Nicola Brookes’ landmark court case that forced Facebook to hand over the IP address details of people abusing her on the social network, a 32-year-old serving policeman has been arrested.