The world’s major tech companies have similar policies in handling our online accounts, even under threat of law or after our death.

Search giant working on verification program for legitimate providers.

2,500 like-minded people descend on South West England to ‘hack the planet’.

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the "Satori" botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other "Internet of Things" (IoT) devices. This outcome is hardly surprising given that the accused's alleged alter ego has been relentless in seeking media attention for this global crime machine.

Flaw allows a local user to obtain System privileges.

One Romanian campus computer lab both pentested the world and eventually helped protect it.

Flash will have to be enabled every time a site tries to use it.

Speculative execution attacks truly are the gift that keeps on giving.

Apps will be run in a virtual machine that's discarded after use.

Both companies insist nothing will change, but this former Cisco customer has doubts.