SOMETIMES OUR SMARTPHONES are our friends, sometimes they seem like our lovers, and sometimes they’re our dope dealers. And no one, in the past 12 months at least, has done more than Tristan Harris to explain the complexity of this relationship. Harris is a former...

Det kan ta en timme för Försvarets radioanstalts professionella hackare att ta sig in i svenska myndigheters IT-system. I vissa fall avbryter man säkerhetsgranskningen tills de mest elementära bristerna är åtgärdade.– Tyvärr ser vi hos många myndigheter att man man...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday asked the chief executives of Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc, AT&T Inc, Verizon Communications Inc and other companies to testify at a Sept. 7 hearing on the...

Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company's Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the night instead of fixing a reported bug.The arrest took place this week in Hungary after an...

We know by now that the internet is a giant playpen, a landscape of toys, distractions and instant gratification, of chirps and squeaks and bright, shiny things – plus, to be sure, ugly, horrid beasties lurking in all the softness – apparently without horizon....

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump, who acts as his senior White House adviser, secured a multimillion-dollar Manhattan real estate deal with a Soviet-born oligarch whose company was cited in a major New York money laundering case now being investigated by...

Colonel Kurtz used to spend hours playing social games like Farmville. Now he hunts terrorists on the internet.Counter-terrorism was never meant to be Silicon Valley's job. Is that why it's failing? Read moreThe pseudonymous 41-year-old, who runs his own construction...

US tech giant Apple has previewed forthcoming emojis, including one that depicts a woman wearing a hijab.More than 12 animated symbols were unveiled on Monday to celebrate World Emoji Day and will be released on Apple devices later this year, the company said."The new...

Show of hands: Who likes to buy illegal drugs online? How about weapons, or malware, or lists of credit-card numbers?We're sorry to inform you, but your nefarious desires just got harder to satisfy.With the takedown of two of the dark web's major marketplaces—AlphaBay...

Apple has added a new “Customer Support” role to the iTunes Connect portal for app developers, allowing companies to provide designated representatives with the ability to respond to customer reviews on the App Store. The new role complements the change earlier this...

Uppgifter om Säpos och Försvarsmaktens agenter, som verkar under falsk identitet, kan ha röjts i samband med att Transportstyrelsens IT-system lades ut på IBM, skriver Dagens Nyheter.Det framgår av Säpos förhörsprotokoll med Transportstyrelsens förra generaldirektör...

The neighbors had their suspicions.The young Canadian accused of masterminding the world's leading "darknet" internet marketplace lived a seemingly quiet life for more than a year with his Thai girlfriend in a middle-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangkok.But...