By failing to focus on cybersecurity, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee botched its hearing on Chuck Hagel as defense secretary.
Wikipedia surpassed 3 billion mobile page views in January. But, as the site grows, how is its content changing?
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal said this week that their computer systems have been infiltrated by Chinese hackers. While these types of unwanted intrusions can happen to anyone, there are measures you can take to protect your digital identity.
The IRS has refreshed, enhanced and polished its “Where’s My Refund?” app for the 2013 tax season, making it more automated and accurate than ever before.
On the last day of January, the Fail Whale has returned, and Twitter is back down.
Mega, Kim Dotcom’s successor to the defunct Megaupload, promised security and privacy that would make it legal and prevent it being taken down like other file-sharing sites. But a new search engine, mega-search.me, could undermine that claim because files are now visible to the public.
Twitter updated its web interface Wednesday to allow for large image viewing and support for video content.
Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, 27, faces up to 105 years in federal prison after hacking into accounts and blackmailing hundreds of women to pose nude for him.
Mozilla proudly announced this morning it had been named the "Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy" in 2012, according to an annual independent study on data protection and privacy.
Less than a year and a half old, Google+ has flourished to become the world's No. 2 social network.
It only took four days for Twitter’s new video sharing application, Vine, to become a porn-sharing application.
Popular torrent website Kat.ph went offline Saturday night (Jan. 26), which is not uncommon, but users began to sweat when the site was still down after almost 24 hours.
Anonymous, a hacktivist group, claimed its Operation Last Resort was responsible for the shutdown of a U.S. government website Saturday.
Mary Kay Beckman is suing Match.com for almost $10 million after she was attacked and nearly murdered by Wade Ridley, whom she met on the site.
On Friday morning, BitTorrent launched a new free public service called BitTorrent Sync, which allows users to securely back up and sync files over the Web with no storage limits.
A German court has effectively ruled in favor of the Internet and one’s right to access it on an uninterrupted basis.
Popular BitTorrent website the Pirate Bay went down Thursday night, with users reporting trouble with the Swedish site for longer than three hours.
Gawker Media is restructuring its business development team to focus on e-commerce as a growing method of monetization, a memo leaked Thursday from founder Nick Denton said.
A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over data for users accused of sending racist and anti-Semitic messages on the social network.
Etsy has acquired the creators of Mixel, an iOS application that allows users to make photo collages, as part of a renewed effort to spruce up its mobile presence.
Now home in California, Sophie Schmidt published some notes on North Korea under a headline, “It might not get weirder than this.”
Groupon has ended all promotions for gun-related offers just over a month after the mass shooting in Newton, Conn., late last year.
Mega, the successor to Kim Dotcom's controversial Megaupload service, launched over the weekend to much praise and long wait times.
Google, the No. 1 search engine, is expected to report that its earnings and revenue juggernaut kept rolling through the fourth quarter.
The long-anticipated Mega launch may be the most awkward event in the history of tech releases, as Kim Dotcom presided over one of the most embarrassing and silly displays of pompousness in recent memory early Sunday morning Eastern Standard Time.
Kim Dotcom is launching Mega, his successor to Megaupload, at 2:30 a.m. EST Sunday via livestream, and here's your opportunity to watch the filesharing site release event live.
Kim Dotcom has launched Mega, an encrypted, secure file-sharing successor to Megaupload.com, which was shut down last year by U.S. authorities who charged him and several other Megaupload leaders with criminal copyright infringement and other counts.
After the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, met defeat by congressional inaction last year, its failure stood as proof of Netizens' power to rally against and thereby halt legislation that is portrayed as censorship. With Friday the first anniversary of SOPA’s defeat, activists have dubbed Jan. 18 Internet Freedom Day, an unofficial holiday that celebrates transparency online.
Coffeehouses and cafes with public Internet access will not be affected by the coming Six-Strikes anti-piracy scheme, but not all businesses will be subject to the same clemency.
This week, actor and uber-badass Samuel L. Jackson made headlines for his cover of Taylor Swift’s catchy pop hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Let’s celebrate that beautiful pairing with a look at some of Jackson’s best viral videos.
