Privacy

Google is giving its users the option to control what happens to their data after they die—delete it from the internet or share with friends and family members.

Cyber defense player Bromium scored $40 million in a round of financing led by Meritech Capital Partners.

Facebook received requests from more than 70 countries in the first half of this year for information from up to 38,000 accounts.

The unsealing of the largest-ever U.S. cyber crime prosecution last week serves as a blaring siren for corporate America.

A new report claims the apparent data breach at Home Depot may be worse than last year’s infamous Target infiltration.

Think you know all the ways you are vulnerable to being hacked? Think again.

Thieves often prey on victims during the holidays through a variety of schemes to take their information and their money.

Target. Home Depot. Michaels. And now, this Sony mess. The year 2014 will certainly be known as the year of the mega-hack, the year personal privacy took its first really big hit, right?

Breaches are the new normal. Sony Pictures, the U.S. Postal Service, Home Depot, JPMorgan Chase, Goodwill, Staples, eBay, P.F. Chang’s, Michaels, Neiman Marcus and Kmart, along with countless others, experienced major data compromises this year.

Here are two simple rules to follow when developing hacker-proof passwords. 

It’s the dirty secret in banking. Bank employees often steal personal account information from bank customers so as to rob money from bank accounts or commit fraud via identity theft, and few banks seem immune.

In his first interview since being released from prison, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio appeared on FBN’s Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo to tell his story of a fight against the NSA and allegations of insider trading.

Alexader Fernandes always knew he wanted to run a company, but he never dreamed it would be one with more than $100 million in revenue, and among Canada’s fastest-growing companies.

Low altitude drones present a hornet’s nest of privacy, security and safety concerns that just may outweigh the commercial benefits.

In a conversation with the American Enterprise Institute, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt weighed in on privacy,  job creation and the role of government in technology. Schmidt, who came to Google as CEO in 2001, also spoke of his management regrets.  

According to BuzzFeed, Uber Senior Vice President Emil Michael suggested ways to get back at journalists who have criticized Uber.

Tech industry leaders including Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Microsoft, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed legal briefs on Thursday asking a judge to support Apple n its encryption battle with the U.S. government.

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey told Congress on Tuesday that he understands the outcome of the San Bernardino iPhone encryption case will set a precedent for other cases.