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Most seafaring vessels use an onboard device called an automatic identification system (AIS) receiver that store a wealth of information about the ship. And according to research from the security experts at Boston's Rapid7 …

LONDON (AP) — The maker of one of the Internet's most popular browsers is taking on one of the world's best-known purveyors of surveillance software, accusing a British company of hijacking the Mozilla brand to camouflage its espionage products.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The phony tweet from the Associated Press' hacked Twitter account, which sparked a short-lived panic in the stock market a week ago by saying that President Barack Obama was injured in two explosions at the White House, underscored the need to look at regulating automated trading, the top U.S. derivatives …

By Mari Saito and Sinead Carew TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp President Masayoshi Son came out swinging on Tuesday against Dish Network Corp's rival bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, saying the satellite TV company would cripple Sprint with debt and was ill-prepared to run a wireless service. Billionaire Son said there …

Iceland, a nation of seafarers, has been stormed by pirates. They won't be forming the government, but online freedom advocates the Pirate Party were still big winners in the country's election. The party, ...

Federal investigators have gathered a DNA sample from Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, but they may be grasping at straws

In no way is that a fight that should interest Americans; rather, we should be taking great care not to get entangled in it at all.

We are not plucky brunettes sporting hipster glasses, ready to tussle with old-school editors and sleep with anyone who gets between us and a scoop

Nokia is determined to show that no company can out-cheap it. Bloomberg reports that Nokia is “counting on a bare-bones handset that sells for just $20 to give it an edge” over rivals in emerging markets. The new Nokia 105 includes such dulling-edge features as “preloaded games, a color screen, a radio, a speaking clock …

A little less than a week after a hacked Associated Press account reported a non-existent bombing at the White House, Twitter decided it was time to comfort journalists by warning them that they should expect to get hacked. "We believe that these attacks will continue, and that news and media organizations will continue …

LONDON (AP) — The Guardian newspaper said Monday that its Twitter accounts have been hacked, and it cited a claim of responsibility from the group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army.

The nation's deadly civil war has prompted a digital propaganda campaign to correct foreign media "distortion"

Spanish officials have arrested a Dutch citizen in northeast Spain for his involvement in what has been called the biggest cyberattack in Internet history. The suspect is said to have operated a hacking bunker in a van that was equipped with “various antennas to scan frequencies” that he used to evade authorities. The unnamed …

MADRID (AP) — A Dutch citizen arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching what authorities have called the biggest cyberattack in Internet history is expected to be handed over to the Netherlands within 10 days, a Spanish court official said Monday.

By Lee Chyen Yee HONG KONG (Reuters) - The next CEO of China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will not be a family member of the incumbent chief, Ren Zhengfei, an ex-military officer who founded the company 26 years ago and built an empire that now rivals big global names in telecom gear and handsets. Huawei, which ranks behind …

By Simon Johnson and Leila Abboud STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese telecom operators will start awarding contracts for super-fast mobile networks this year, kicking off the third wave of a global investment cycle that is reshaping the competitive landscape among telecom equipment makers. China, the world's biggest mobile …

MADRID (AP) — A Dutch citizen arrested in northeast Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in Internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country, officials said Sunday.

Still stuck on central-bank life support LONDON (Reuters) - Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis, the world economy is in such a chronic condition that the European Central Bank might cut interest rates this week and the Federal Reserve is likely to indicate no let-up in the stimulus it is providing …

MADRID (AP) — A Dutch citizen arrested in northeast Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in Internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country, officials said Sunday.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A 35-year-old Dutch man has been arrested in Barcelona by Spanish police over last month's massive cyber attack which disrupted global internet services, the Dutch public prosecutor's office said on Saturday. The man, who was identified by the Dutch public prosecutor only by the initials "S.K.", was …

By Wanfeng Zhou NEW YORK (Reuters) - With signs of a slower economy mounting, the near-term outlook for U.S. stocks isn't rosy, but investors may find comfort next week from the world's major central banks. The Federal Reserve will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the report of weaker-than-expected, first-quarter growth …

By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LivingSocial, the second-largest daily deal company behind Groupon Inc, said on Friday it was hit by a cyber attack that may have affected more than 50 million customers. The company said the attack on its computer systems resulted in unauthorized access to customer data, including …

By Wanfeng Zhou NEW YORK (Reuters) - With signs of a slower economy mounting, the near-term outlook for U.S. stocks isn't rosy, but investors may find comfort next week from the world's major central banks. The Federal Reserve will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the report of weaker-than-expected, first-quarter growth …