One of the hacker attacks stole over 105 million records making it the single largest data breach in cybercrime history.

By EditorialTranslated By Amy Baker 15 February 2014Edited by Gillian Palmer  

The EU is developing a secret plan to give the police the power to control cars by switching the engine off remotely

Some HSBC customers have been prevented from withdrawing large amounts of cash because they could not provide evidence of why they wanted it, the BBC has learnt.

Nigeria's parliament and president quietly approved the legislation, making the country the 38th in Africa to have laws persecuting gay people...

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Defiant message left on Massachusetts Institute of Technology webpage a year after internet activist took own life while awaiting trial for 'hacking'

The president and his aides are now wrapping up a review of spy programs.

A York University student who refused to work with women for religious reasons has sparked a human rights tug-of-war between a professor and campus administration...

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The NSA is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world.

As many as three quarters of a million young people in the UK may feel that they have nothing to live for, a study for the Prince's Trust charity claims.

SMS messages, location, camera, hot mic. The NSA can see it all.

The Fukushima cleanup is a boom industry, with a number of shady entities trying to score a piece of the pie.

In a message to Pope Francis, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he's ready for peace talks, but outsiders must stop supporting terrorists in the civil war.

Denmark has a closer relationship with the US intelligence agency than Sweden and Germany to the concern of Danes and the annoyance of Germans

Edward Snowden did the world a favour by revealing the scale of surveillance by governments, according to the inventor of the internet.

Yao Jingyuan predicts economic growth in 2014, but has harsh words for China's banks

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China's plan to relax its controversial decades-long, one-child policy has taken a significant step forward, with the country's top legislative body poised to approve its implementation early next year.