Internet Security & Internet Censorship

Yesterday, in a disturbing report published on CNET, new documents obtained by EPIC reveal that Obama administration officials have authorized a new government program involving the interception of communications on Internet service providers, including...

The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within their borders.

Two California men face charges in Massachusetts of hacking into point-of-sale computers at Subway restaurants and adding more than $40,000 in value to gift cards, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Congress may need to create stiffer penalties for criminal computer hacking to deter the growing number of attacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, some lawmakers said Wednesday.

Publication of the report on government data requests places Microsoft alongside Google, Twitter and other Web businesses in releasing regular transparency reports.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Malaysia is among 25 countries using off-the-shelf spyware to keep tabs on citizens by secretly grabbing images off computer screens, recording video chats, turning on cameras…...

The popular microblogging site Twitter has agreed to block access to accounts or posts that have been blacklisted by Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Communications, a statement posted...

Reddit and Craigslist are just two of the more than 30,000 websites joining a "Week of Action" against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

Cyber-espionage is old news. What’s new is the rhetoric, which is reaching a fever pitch right now.

A couple weeks ago, we wrote about some growing concern that, due to the US Copyright Office's pressure, the Justice Department was seriously considering filing a brief in an important case about fair use.

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The biggest internet attack in history has caused widespread congestion and threatens critical infrastructure.

A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday.

A former Tribune Company employee could face as much as 10 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website.

Back 1n 1986, the Congress passed and President Reagan signed the Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA), which set the rules under which the government could get copies of a relatively new-fangled medium called electronic mail.

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has some advice for Myanmar's budding web community -- don't let the government control the Internet

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the most outrageous criminal law you’ve never heard of.

Indonesian Internet Service Providers Telkom, Biznet, and Matrixnet Global are somewhat under fire now if they are proven guilty of spying on their users.

U.S. consumers experienced the highest level of identity theft in three years in 2012, although much of the fraud losses were absorbed by banks and merchants, according to a new survey.