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Among the issues on the agenda for the talks over the weekend between China's President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Obama were cybersecurity and hacker attacks on U.S. targets by hackers based in China ...

The Obama administration on Tuesday targeted patent trolls with a number of initiatives aimed at curbing activity it blames for stymieing innovation in America ...

Numerous new accusations have kept cyberespionage firmly in the media spotlight in the run-up to President Barack Obama's meeting this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

Chinese hackers were accused of stealing the designs for more than two dozen U.S. military weapons systems in a report appearing Monday in The Washington Post ...

China and Iran were accused last week of renewing their cyberattacks on U.S. computer systems after a brief hiatus ...

Intel's new CEO Brian Krzanich showed Tuesday he's ready to put his stamp on the chipmaking giant by announcing a company reorganization that includes a division for new devices ...

Chances are you've never heard of the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, but you may be familiar with its former Internet domain: PW ...

It appears that Microsoft won't be rocking the Windows Phone 8 boat very much until 2014 ...

Willie Sutton once said that he robbed banks because that's where the money was. If Sutton were living today, he might have made the career move to hacker ...

The Obama administration appears to be sending a message to privacy advocates that it's taking their issue seriously by creating a new position devoted to it -- and choosing a high-profile tech lawyer to occupy it ...

There are 3.7 billion IP addresses on the Internet, and HD Moore has pinged every one of them ...

Authentication requirements for some travelers looking for shared accommodations around the world will be getting a little tougher ...

Cybercriminals have begun focusing their malicious endeavors on the sinew of the Internet to reap greater rewards ...

It's no secret that security experts don't have a lot of love for social media. Information freely available at social media sites makes it easier for net marauders to fashion targeted attacks on organizations ...

American Airlines created a nightmare for its customers for at least two hours Tuesday. Its electronic reservation system wentdown in the middle of the afternoon, forcing the carrier to hold allflights until after 4:30 p.m. ET. The incident may have exposed a rift between AA and Sabre, the company managing its computerized reservations system, which used to be part of the airline...

A lot of noise has been made about the consequences of data breaches for companies, but a recent survey of some of the largest U.S. businesses may have wrapped those noisemakers in a muffler ...

Google has revamped its Google Play Android app with designs on making it easier to use and better for discovering content. The search giant is also thinning its app catalog by removing what it considers to be low quality offerings. ...

China has a reputation as a center for international hacking, so why would a U.S. security company want to set up shop there? ...

Nothing steams consumers like robocalls, which is why the Federal Trade Commission launched a contest last year calling for ideas to tackle the nuisance. The winners of that challenge were announced Tuesday ...

One of the largest denial of service attacks in the history of the Internet didn't take rocket science to execute ...