A judge in a federal court in Virginia stunned civil liberties groups by recently ruling that computer users connected to the Internet do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. The ruling came ...

My laptop computer was purchased by Stanford, but my whole life is stored on it. I have e-mail dating back several years, my address book with the names of everyone I know, notes and musings for ...

It's very possible. New generations of "Web bugs" provide crackers, hackers and other third-party snoopers ways to explore holes in software and even break through computer "firewalls" to access ...

Chances are your privacy settings are something you clicked on once and then basically forgot about it. But it's a good idea to occasionally go back and evaluate your settings to make sure they're ...

Computer pioneer Willis Ware saw the future, and it worried him. In 1966, Dr. Ware, who worked as an engineer at Rand Corp. in California, foresaw not only the omnipresence of personal computers but ...

Chances are your privacy settings are something you clicked on once and then basically forgot about it. But it's a good idea to occasionally go back and evaluate your settings to make sure they're ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The idea of privacy is in many ways antithetical to the data-driven ...

On January 11, 2022, the Israeli Supreme Court, in an expanded panel of nine justices, prescribed a set of rules concerning procedures and judicial discretion on the granting of search warrants of ...

BERLIN -- A security researcher has a devised a novel attack on online anonymity systems in which he literally takes a computer's temperature over the internet. The attack uses a phenomenon called ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Two former Saco employees have been charged with criminal invasion of ...

A Computer Privacy and Security class will be held Saturday, Sept. 20, from 9 to 11 a.m., with a computer expert and engineer coming to teach about security and ...