Dan Simmons visits a major cyber-security company to see how - or if - inter-state hacking can be prevented.

Social networking site Ask.fm announces pledges to change the way it deals with reported comments to make its forums safe.

The police will be asked why the partner of a journalist who was leaked files by Edward Snowden was held for nine hours under terror laws, a senior MP says.

A Palestinian programmer posted a warning about a security flaw on a private Facebook page belonging to Mark Zuckerberg.

Markus "Notch" Persson says he is no longer working on a futuristic video game as a follow-up to Minecraft

Ethiopia signs an $800m deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to expand its mobile phone network to allow for 3G internet access nationwide.

Google is trying to stop a case from UK users of the Safari web browser, who say their activity was illegally tracked, from being heard in the UK, a lawyer says.

Amazon's US website goes offline for about half an hour, the latest high-profile internet firm to face such a problem in recent days.