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Surgical devices, ventilators, defibrillators, monitors among equipment at risk.

NSA snooping and the Patriot Act have raised thoughts about storing cloud data with non-American companies and outside the USA. Norway's Jottacloud is pitching for that business…

The ongoing chaos that is the NSA story continues. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook try to get permission to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That doesn't work out so well, and all we get are aggregated numbers and more aggravation.

CORRECTED: The politician who allegedly said the U.S. National Security Agency can listen to phone calls of both U.S. residents and foreign nationals without a court order debunks the original report.

In response to stories about widespread spying by the NSA, some giant tech companies asked the government for permission to disclose more details about national security orders. The government has now granted those requests, with significant restrictions that have Microsoft and Google agreeing they don't go far enough.

A leading figure in digital advertising says the ad industry is complicit in the NSA mass-data spying program, PRISM.

Last week's bombshell stories by The Guardian and The Washington Post accused some of the biggest names in tech of willingly working with the NSA to give up your data. It now appears that those stories misread the technical details and got the story wrong.

U.S. officials are urging G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors to ramp up efforts to combat cybercrime.

Munir Kotadia wraps up AusCERT 2013, giving his highlights of the event and what he found to be the most enlightening parts of his interviews.

Google is warning Iranians that it is seeing a rise in what it believes are politically motivated phishing attacks ahead of the nation's presidential election.

Updated: It's been a rough couple of weeks for employees in the tech industry.

In a letter obtained by ZDNet, the EU justice chief hints at consequences to come for the U.S. government if European citizens were targeted by the NSA's PRISM program.

Despite rolling out five security updates, Microsoft missed out a patch for a zero-day flaw in Windows. And it just so happened it was discovered by its main rival in the business space.

After allegedly trying to steal $15 million from U.S. banking customers, U.S. feds haven't taken the conspiracy lightly.

IT security isn't just about buying and installing the latest products, according to IBM's director of application, data, mobile, and infrastructure security, Caleb Barlow.

Some officials in the region use e-mail services run by Yahoo or Gmail as their ministries lack proper IT infrastructure or due to personal preference, raising fears they may be monitored by the U.S. National Security Agency.

A flaw in iOS 7 gives attackers the ability to quietly go through a user's camera roll to delete pictures or, worse, share them with others — even if the device uses a lock screen.

We know that there's no such thing as a completely secure computer system. Is the NSA the nation's largest security risk of them all?

To address privacy breach concerns, the Data Security Council of India has announced a training program to educate assessors about how to protect personal information from disclosure, modification, or misuse.

Another report, another 'cyber' initiative. But we've been putting these projects, proposals, and plans out for years with very little difference in results or agenda. Which makes me wonder: Do we even understand what the 'cybers' are?