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A two-step verification process is being added to Microsoft accounts to provide more online protection in a major upgrade.

Aaron Swartz, the celebrated open internet campaigner and co-founder of the Reddit site has died aged 26 – in an apparent suicide.

A British student attacked the PayPal website, in a hack which cost the site millions, a court has heard.

The dating site eHarmony has confirmed a password breach that has compromised the security of some of its members.

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A security specialist has said that he has worked out a way of breaking the password protection on Wi-Fi networks using Amazon's Web Services cloud.

Facebook has announced the arrival of the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup, which calls on those with a hacking brain to come and try and improve the website for cold, hard cash.

Facebook's head of privacy, Lord Richard Allan, has revealed that hacking of users' Facebook accounts to scam them out of cash has become a 'major issue' for the social networking giant.

The Home Office is set to reconsider the plans for the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon to the US.

Hacker and Asperger's sufferer Gary McKinnon has lost his final appeal to the UK Government to halt his extradition to face trial in the US.