A Toronto-based law firm last week launched litigation seeking class action status against Facebook, alleging the mishandling of sensitive user data.

The Indian government needs to tread carefully in its push to monitor data in the interest of national security, according to an analyst.

A small trade group is trying to drum up industry concern about "content mills," a fast-growing sector of the digital media business that publish loads of cheap, fast stories.

One of the great mysteries involving Apple Records, the legendary music label created by the Beatles, is why the band's music is still not available online--legally.

The U.S. military has filed criminal charges against an Army intelligence analyst who has been accused of sending sensitive files to Wikileaks.

Employer confidence in the IT industry is at its highest level since April 2008, with 42 per cent of employers planning to increase full-time staff before September.

Google has plugged a hole hackers used Sunday morning to festoon YouTube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-site redirects, according to a news outlet.

The out-of-cycle Adobe Reader and Acrobat patch released on Tuesday has failed to remedy an issue that could allow an attacker to run malicious code, according to a Vietnamese security company.

Internet Explorer has reversed a years-long slide in browser usage, at least for the month of June, reclaiming share at the expense of Firefox.

The days of using fat campus bandwidth to download movies and music via file-sharing networks appear to be coming to an end.

Amazon is acquiring online retailer Woot.com. The deal was announced Wednesday afternoon on Woot's company blog for a reported $110 million.

A week after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned that the government would start cracking down on illegal file sharing, feds swooped in and seized assets belonging to operators of accused...

Microsoft appears to be staffing up for the next installment in the Halo franchise.

Apple apparently has a game plan for dealing with iPhone 4 reception complaints--and it expressly prohibits giving customers free bumpers.

Removing admin rights helps organizations eliminate accidental or deliberate misuse, decrease the risks posed by malware and reduce the cost of supporting the corporate desktop, says Avecto's Mark...

Mozilla pushed out an update to Firefox on Saturday, slightly adjusting the new plug-in crash protection feature that was introduced last week.

A 28-year-old Perth IT professional has become one of the few Australians to have a radio-frequency identification chip implanted in the hand.

Graphics in a political attack ad for California gubernatorial candidate and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman that imitated popular humor blog FailBlog aren't going over too well with Cheezburger Network.

The parts used to construct the iPhone 4 cost about $187.51, according to a teardown analysis conducted by research firm iSuppli.

Australian security experts took their e-security code of conduct to the White House, where it met with Barack Obama's cyber-security coordinator, Howard Schmidt.