People trying to profit via the bitcoin electronic currency will soon have to work harder to mint the digital coins.

A consultation on the effectiveness of contempt laws in the age of Twitter and blogs is launched by the Law Commission.

Ericsson files a lawsuit in the US against South Korea's Samsung Electronics for allegedly infringing its patents.

A British student facing trial and possible imprisonment in the United States strikes a deal to avoid extradition, the High Court hears.

The UN nuclear agency acknowledges that one of its computer servers was hacked by an anti-Israeli group which then published the contact details of nuclear experts.

Two men who sent millions of spam text messages have been fined £440,000 as part of an attempt to step up the fight against the illegal trade in personal information.

A miniature city with all the infrastructure and computer systems of a real one has been built to train US cyber-warriors.

Nokia is seeking to ban sales of Blackberry phones in the US, UK and Canada after its rival refused to pay patent licence fees.