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Thousands of fingered crims, informants spaffed in web security COCK-UP

Exclusive UK privacy watchdog pokes server config gaffe

Law 19 Jun 12:34

Julian Assange: I'm quite happy to sleep on Ecuador's sofa FOREVER

Wikileaker won't leave London embassy even if Sweden no longer wants him

Government 19 Jun 10:19

Norks taunt, yank Yanks' crank over PRISM: US is 'rights abuse kingpin'

NSA web snooping 'against mankind' sneers tubby boy-king's pravda

Government 19 Jun 08:34

EU Justice Department stalls India's security clearance

Without a 'data secure destination' cert India's locked out of $30bn euro-sourcing market

Policy 19 Jun 06:29

Google mounts legal challenge to surveillance gag orders

Argues free speech trumps security secrecy

Government 18 Jun 22:49

Drug gang hacks into Belgian seaport, cops seize TONNE of smack

9 nabbed after shipping container system used to transport heroin, cocaine

Law 18 Jun 11:04

Number of cops abusing Police National Computer access on the rise

Only a telegram from the Queen can get you off it

Government 18 Jun 07:03

Global tax data exchange plan floated to recoup cash

OECD outlines plan for automatic exchange of data if IT can agree on formats, crypto

Policy 18 Jun 05:27

When UK.gov asks 'Who's your daddy', companies HAD BETTER reply

HMRC will be able to access details of firms' beneficial owners

Government 18 Jun 05:03

NSA: We COULD track you by your phone ... if we WANTED to

Honestly, too much work, can't be bothered

Government 17 Jun 21:05

NSA whistleblower to tech firms, Obama: 'Grow a pair!'

Ed Snowden: Email tracking grabs 'IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything'

Government 17 Jun 19:12

Google flings another £1m at online child sex abuse vid CRACKDOWN

See, see, we're trying, ad giant tells Daily Mail UK.gov

Government 17 Jun 11:45

Ecuador: All right, Julian, you CAN stay on our sofa - it's your human right

Minister and Wikileaker share cosy chat in tiny London flat

Government 17 Jun 10:39

Ad-slingers! Punting peeps' pics into promos? You must read THIS

If you're sucking Twitter twits dry for stuff, you need to follow the law

Law 17 Jun 07:59

Anon posts Filipino president's phone numbers

Attempts to give Aquino a wake-up call and democracy a kick-start

Government 17 Jun 06:23

Panda-peddlers cuffed for chess gambling gambit

More porridge on the menu for Chinese coders after second offence

Law 17 Jun 05:28

Rally supports Snowden amid claims GCHQ tapped G20 summit

NSA accused of ops on UK soil

Government 17 Jun 03:32

SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix

Zombie lawsuit back and wants to suck the brains out of Linux

Law 17 Jun 00:48

Not just telcos, THOUSANDS of companies share data with US spies

It's all perfectly legal, trust us

Government 14 Jun 19:56

Report: Foreign owners blocked T-Mobile, Verizon from NSA snoops

Sprint/Softbank merger hire suggests Japanese will play ball

Government 14 Jun 18:48

Former QiComm CEO cleared in money-laundering case

Too late to save the business, though

The Channel 14 Jun 14:56

Japan proposes NSA-style agency and new snooping laws

Don't you guys read the news over there?!

Policy 14 Jun 06:30

EU signs off on eCall emergency-phone-in-every-car plan

GPS and a mobe in every car - do you suppose the NSA would fancy that?

Policy 14 Jun 05:59

WTO sets new date for copyright crunch

'Least-developed' countries excused from policing IP laws until 2021

Policy 14 Jun 05:28

ACMA mulls cloud regulation

Aussies don't really trust cloud providers

Government 13 Jun 21:29

Confidence in US Congress sinks to lowest level ever recorded

So why the %$#@! do we keep re-electing the same politicians?

Government 13 Jun 19:40

US Supremes: Human genes can't be patented

It's not quite that simple, of course – but is it ever?

Law 13 Jun 18:18

PRISM snitch claims NSA hacked Chinese targets since 2009

Snowden suddenly looks safer in Hong Kong after revelations

Government 13 Jun 03:45

Silicon Valley digiterati to brainstorm at 30,000 ft

Nothing spurs creative thinking like 11 hours in a flying tube

Policy 12 Jun 21:13

Jailed LulzSec hacker Cleary coughs to child porn images, will be freed soon

Some images of infants as young as six months

Law 12 Jun 17:32

Google donates £1m to child abuse charity ahead of Whitehall meeting

Well if someone has to censor the interwebs...

Government 12 Jun 12:33

BBC lied to Parliament about doomed £100m IT monster, thunder MPs

Analysis Axed DMI ballooned and burst while watchdogs sang Kumbaya

Government 12 Jun 07:04

NSA accused of new crimes ... against slideware

They may take our information but they cannot take our REFINED AESTHETICS

Government 12 Jun 06:03

Chinese software pirate gets 12 years in US slammer

Crack 99 mastermind sold biz software worth $100 MEEELION

Law 12 Jun 04:34

Australia ponders easier share options, crowdfunding

Startups' wish list ticked off, in a good way

Policy 12 Jun 02:56

India forges ahead with fibre-to-the-village

Six contracts let in ambitious broadband plan

Policy 12 Jun 01:58

Mozilla, ACLU, others join fight against NSA domestic spying

Congress, courts urged to take immediate action

Government 12 Jun 00:51

Cray cracks Oz military for super simulating silent subs

Computational fluid dynamics off the port bow

Government 11 Jun 22:06

KEEP CALM and Carry On: PRISM itself is not a big deal

Analysis But yes, Skype's no longer safe ... and keep an eye on GCHQ

Government 11 Jun 13:44

NSA PRISM deepthroat VANISHES as pole-dance lover cries into keyboard

Video Blogging bikini babe blubs about 'the ones I never got to bid adieu'

Government 11 Jun 11:45

Techies finger Bradley Manning for US secret files database breach

While Ecuador looks to boot Assange out of its embassy

Government 11 Jun 10:27

US judge revives lawsuit vs Baidu and China

Pro-democracy group allowed to throw censorship sueball

Government 11 Jun 04:30

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