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Syrian Electronic Army continues to deface western companies and government websites as the U.S. prepares for a military strike against Syria.

The end of August saw a massive surge in private browsing tools, including PirateBrowser and the Tor network.

The Bitcoin Foundation met with representatives of several government groups, including FinCEN, the FBI, IRS, and Federal Reserve.

Facebook is thinking of making a facial recognition database.

The report provides the first look at requests for user data made by governments.

Some lenders are beginning to analyze Facebook friends and other social data when determining a loan applicant's worthiness.

The pro-Assad group hacked the New York Times site, and altered domain records for Twitter and Huffington Post UK.

A group of hackers defaced Google Palestine, claiming they hacked it. Here's how they infiltrated and defaced the site.

Here are 20 potential CEOs for once-dominant tech company that's seeking a new direction.

A U.S. government report cites three main threats to mobile devices: SMS, or text message Trojans, Rootkits and fake Google Play domains.

India overtook Japan as home to the world's third-largest online population, which grew by 31 percent.

The NSA said some employees violated their authority on rare occasions over the last decade.

CNET Replay allows tech companies to have positive device reviews featured on the home page months after they were written.

Yahoo attracted more unique visitors than Google did in July, and it also topped a web-traffic rankings report.

Facebook offered an apology to the Palestinian hacker who infiltrated Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Timeline, and an Indiegogo account compensated the hacker with more than $11k.

Apple will enter a crowded music streaming service market, which includes Pandora, Spotify and iHeartRadio.

Instead of directing queries to websites like About.com and wikiHow, Google hopes to capture much of that traffic for itself.

Facebook and 6 other tech companies will work together to make the Internet accessible the billions who don't have it.

Google was granted a patent that it filed in May 2011 for a “Gaze Tracking System” to record a user’s engagement with advertising.

Pamela Jones announced that she would close her award-winning Groklaw blog after 10 years of covering tech law.

Google (GOOG) briefly went down on Friday, and the company refuses to say why.

Facebook is denying a reward to a Palestinian hacker who discovered a bug that allows users to post to anyone's Facebook Timeline.

Facebook recently ignored a bug report from a security expert, who later used the flaw to hack Mark Zuckerberg’s profile.

We live in a surveillance society. Find out how it affects you.

China's government gathered a group of influential bloggers to give them guidelines on what they should and shouldn't post.

Solving an age-old problem for wine drinkers, a new company has raised $900K to expand its wine discovery app.

Tim Armstrong has apologized after firing Patch creative director Abel Lenz on a conference call.

An audit found that more than a fifth of 2,100 sites did not disclose data protection policies or use of visitors' personal information.

A three-year-old report shows how the conversation around digital privacy has been elevated since Snowden's leaks.