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A stenographer who ignored the belt-and-suspenders policy of transcribing trials on both paper and disk was fired after a virus destroyed data on her computer, destroying the only transcript of a murder conviction, which was thrown out by appellate court that had no record to consider.

Smart devices, social media and increased online activity through app stores and other transaction-based websites are coming together in what one researcher says is a scary combination of factors that have dire implications for national security.

Iran claims it shot down a U.S. RQ-170 spy drone, but won't release proof or say if a new Russian electronic counter-measures system brought it down. Killed or crashed, the drone is one shot in a a cyber/real war using malware, murder and explosive sabotage as weapons.

Mistaken reports that an Illinois water utility was hacked have reduced the angst about Stuxnet-like attacks on U.S. utilities, but the risk is actually worse than ever and increasing in scope every day according to a comprehensive 2-year study of power utilities from MIT.

Watch out for whaling, smartphone worms, social media scams, not to mention attacks targeting your car and house

Financial-services firm MetaQuotes built a cloud based on agents on the PCs of thousands of customers. Malware writers helped spread the software, but kept for themselves money MetaQuotes paid owners.

Android is, by far, the fastest-selling cell phone OS, which could have known by the speed with which people are creating malware to attack it.

The FBI just took down a criminal botnet that hijacked more 4 million PCs worldwide. Here's how to find out if yours is among them.

The newly discovered Son-of-Stuxnet malware named Duqu may have been around longer than anyone thought.

Experts disagree if the new Duqu remote access kit is the tool of a national intelligence agency or just a virus. It's possible the data-thieving, super-smart, oh-so-subtle virus is purely criminal, which would completely change the way we think about digital industrial espionage.

Symantec released a report today with an unusually detailed description of the forensic investigation and trackback to the source of a series of espionage attacks on chemical companies involved in the defense industry. Suspect responds, 'Who, me?'