In horror movies, the scariest moments usually come from the monster you can’t see. So the same goes for real life, or at least online life. Over the past few years, largely out of sight, [...]

We’re charging headlong into a future filled with one-way mirrors behind which the rich spy on the poor, and the strong on the weak. Last week Wikileaks–remember them?–released a sheaf of documents about the Trapwire [...]

It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it [...]

Paving the way for unbreakable communication networks. Single particles of light, also known as photons, have been produced and implemented into a quantum key distribution (QKD) link, paving the way for unbreakable communication networks. The [...]

Most countries face the same urgent issues . . . Cellphones, e-mail, and online social networking have come to rule daily life, but Congress has done nothing to update federal privacy laws to better protect [...]