A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has triggered a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating...The Guardian From ACM News | August 26, 2016
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.The Guardian From ACM News | July 8, 2016
If the founders of a new face recognition app get their way, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past.The Guardian From ACM News | May 25, 2016
Hackers have again demonstrated that no matter how many security precautions someone takes, all a hacker needs to track their location and snoop on their phone...The Guardian From ACM News | April 18, 2016
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...The Guardian From ACM News | February 16, 2016
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.The Guardian From ACM News | January 27, 2016
As the paternoster cabin in which he was slowly descending into the bowels of Stuttgart's town hall plunged into darkness, Dejan Tuco giggled infectiously.The Guardian From ACM News | August 14, 2015
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...The Guardian From ACM News | February 4, 2015
Within the salons of the Elysée Palace, along the corridors of the European parliament and under the glass dome of the Reichstag, Old Europe is preparing for a...The Guardian From ACM News | July 7, 2014
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2014
A major, global cyberterrorist attack has long been the stuff of fiction, the threat that a malevolent hacker could bring down businesses, sabotage power plants...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 5, 2014
The developer who introduced the "Heartbleed" vulnerability to the open-source code used by thousands of websites has told the Guardian it was an "oversight"—but...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2014
The U.S. National Security Agency has performed warrantless searches of its databases to obtain data from Americans' phone calls and emails. The Guardian From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2014
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...The Guardian From ACM News | March 3, 2014
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers,...The Guardian From ACM News | June 6, 2013
Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency—worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing.The Guardian From ACM News | March 25, 2013
YouTube has a billion unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month, equivalent to one out of every two people on the Internet—and the generationsmartphones...The Guardian From ACM Careers | March 22, 2013
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...The Guardian From ACM News | February 19, 2013
Google has revealed the full scale of the U.S. government's use of controversial legislation that bypasses judicial approval to access the online information of...The Guardian From ACM News | January 24, 2013