Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.
South Australian police are spending AU$5.2 million over five years on an IT system to track criminal motorcycle gangs.
A federal judge in the US has sentenced a man to more than six years in prison for conducting Internet scams on eBay.
In the wake of an Australian ruling suggesting that Web publishers are fair game for libel suits anywhere their content appears, a US federal court veers in the opposite direction.
A US court has told a Linux enthusiast he must switch to Windows if he wants to use a computer because the court's monitoring software will only work with Microsoft's operating system.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
A female Belgian virus writer who has allegedly been waging a public and protracted war against an antivirus expert has been arrested and charged by the authorities.
Teenager sentenced to 18 months for writing a MSBlast worm got his just deserts, according to a Web poll. What's your take?
The publisher of two pro-jihad Web sites has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism-related activities, US investigators said on Friday.
Although AMD has painted Intel as a bully, execs who've dealt with company draw a more ambiguous picture.
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