Cybercrime

Only an outsider CEO can help Microsoft

Unless Microsoft finds its next CEO outside its current and former ranks, it won't change, say analysts

Tech firms’ responses to latest NSA disclosures cloud the truth, experts say

The NSA paid millions to compensate companies' surveillance costs, new documents claim

Twitterers have their say on Steve Ballmer, Microsoft … and Batman?

Social network lights up as reports on retirement plans of Microsoft CEO Ballmer blanket the Internet

Software piracy discovered at the IRS

Privacy groups criticize proposed $8.5 million Google settlement

The money is meant for organizations who must use it to help protect privacy on the Internet

Popular download management program has hidden DDoS component, researchers say

Orbit Downloader's DDoS component is used to attack websites and can cause Internet connection problems for users

Poison Ivy RAT gnawing on systems again

The NSA collected data on tens of thousands of Americans

The collection may have been inadvertent, declassified docs show

Poison Ivy, used in RSA SecurID attack, still popular

Security vendor FireEye has released a set of tools to analyze Poison Ivy infections

NSA collected thousands of domestic communications in 2011, court document shows

The numbers represent a misuse of NSA's authority, the EFF said