A former News of the World journalist's allegation the newspaper paid police to track mobile phones raises serious questions about the U.K.'s eavesdropping laws...BBC News From ACM News | July 15, 2011
Google has made a $900m bid for the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker. The patents could help arm it against...BBC News From ACM News | April 5, 2011
Students and academics at a world-leading London university want to build bridges between the Wikipedia website and formal research.BBC News From ACM News | March 25, 2011
The way Websites track visitors and tailor ads to their behavior is about to undergo a big shake-up. From 25 May, European laws dictate that "explicit consent"...BBC News From ACM News | March 10, 2011
A powerful internet worm repeatedly targeted five industrial facilities in Iran over 10 months, ongoing analysis by security researchers shows.BBC News From ACM News | February 16, 2011
The world needs cyber war "Rules of Engagement" to cope with potentially devastating cyber weapons, Russian and US experts will tell world leaders at a security...BBC News From ACM News | February 4, 2011
A member of the Anonymous group of hackers, which has been targeting firms it sees as being anti-Wikileaks has said the campaign is not over.BBC News From ACM News | December 9, 2010
Months after releasing some 90,000 secret records of U.S. military incident and intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan, Wikileaks has posted online...BBC News From ACM News | October 26, 2010
Until recently, the firm automatically redirected Chinese users to its unfiltered search site in Hong Kong to get round censorship issues. Google has said it will...BBC News From ACM News | June 29, 2010
In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol declared that in the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes. As with many other predictions, it has not quite turned...BBC News From ACM News | June 10, 2010