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Byline: Andrea Peterson Every keystroke you make on some wireless keyboards can be spied on by hackers lurking nearby, according to research released by cybersecurity firm Bastille Tuesday. The 'vast [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Imagine having all the files on your computer -- your documents, your photos, your videos -- locked and held hostage by hackers who demand a payout just [...]

Byline: Christian Davenport and Andrea Peterson By now it should be abundantly clear that anything written in email could very well end up read by anyone with an Internet connection. [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who helped expose the extent of U.S. government surveillance, is among the most notorious and celebrated American fugitives. But from his [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Apple's legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another tech giant is fighting a quieter legal war over user privacy: Microsoft. It won a [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Wikileaks posted a massive trove of internal Democratic National Committee emails online Friday, in what the organization dubbed the first of a new 'Hillary Leaks' series. The [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Artem Vaulin is accused of being the mastermind behind the most popular illegal file-sharing site in the world, KickassTorrents, which U.S. authorities say helped distribute over a [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson The alleged founder of one of the world's most notorious illegal file-sharing sites was arrested in Poland on Wednesday, the Justice Department said. Thirty-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Let's be honest: If you're a secret agent, you're probably staying far away from Pokemon Go because of its location-tracking gameplay. But not everyone in the intelligence [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Former St. Louis Cardinals executive Christopher Correa was sentenced to 46 months in prison this week for violating federal hacking laws as part of a cyberespionage campaign [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson There's a major beef going down between married couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and Taylor Swift. But the latest twist may have put West on the [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson When most people picture a drone, they probably either think of military-style behemoths or hobbyist quadcopters. But what if you couldn't tell a drone from something you [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson A federal appeals court sided with Microsoft on Thursday in a case over whether the U.S. government could force the tech giant and other companies to hand [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson The European Union this week signed off on a major privacy agreement aimed at ensuring businesses can continue to share data across the Atlantic. The deal, dubbed [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson WASHINGTON - Almost everywhere you turn, it seems, people have their eyes glued to smartphone screens playing Pokémon Go. Since its launch last week, the app has [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Video games are a big deal on YouTube. Some video game YouTubers have millions of followers who tune in to watch them review games and have turned [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Pokémon Go players are packing America's sidewalks, trying desperately to catch 'em all (Pokémon for newbies, that is) by exploring their neighborhoods with the augmented-reality app. But [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Some Pokemon Go players ended up caught by armed robbers in their quest to catch 'em all, according to a Missouri police department. The augmented-reality game, which [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Facebook is taking a big step toward keeping Messenger users' conversations safe from prying eyes: The company is testing a new feature it calls 'secret conversations,' which [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson A standoff between police and one of the suspects in a Dallas shooting spree, which left at least five police officers dead and seven others wounded Thursday [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson When Minnesota police fatally shot Diamond 'Lavish' Reynolds's boyfriend, Philando Castile, during a traffic stop Wednesday night, Reynolds turned to Facebook and began live-streaming the gruesome aftermath, [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson U.S. regulators announced recalls of more than 500,000 'hoverboards' Wednesday. The motorized, self-balancing scooters -- not the floating board Marty McFly rode in the 'Back to the [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that the agency did not recommend criminal charges against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her use of a private [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Forget the DMV, registering to be an organ donor will soon be just a few taps away on your iPhone. On Tuesday, Apple announced that the version [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Google probably knows you better than your closest friends and family. With every search you make or YouTube video you watch, the search giant is quietly collecting [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Nearly one in two Internet users say privacy and security concerns have now stopped them from doing basic things online - such as posting to social networks, [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Flush with cash in overseas accounts, Apple on this week announced it had invested $1 billion in China's most dominant ride-hailing company, giving the consumer electronics giant [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Republicans seem ready to unfriend Facebook over allegations that the social media network has shown a bias against conservative news in its Trending Topics section. Senate Commerce [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson and Jonnelle Marte Google announced Wednesday that it will ban all payday loan ads from its site, bowing to concerns by advocates who say the lending practice [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Watson, IBM's computer brain, has a lot of talents. It mastered 'Jeopardy!,' it cooks, and even tries to cure cancer. But now, it's training for a new [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Norwegian software company Opera is offering iPhone users a free virtual private network app, dubbed Opera VPN, with unlimited data. But it has a plan making money [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson You probably spend a lot of time staring at screens -- but all that computer time may be making you miss the big picture, new research has [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson WASHINGTON - We trust our smartphones with an astounding amount of information, but all too often those devices may not be protected with the latest security fixes. [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Jordan Hickel has a long row of ultra-expensive tractors and other machinery parked on his farm in central Kansas. 'There's well over a million dollars of equipment [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson May the fourth be with you! That's right, it's 'Star Wars' Day again - the holiday where fans dust off their best Yoda impressions and geek out [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson The Dallas Police Department made public the names, ages and home addresses of some alleged sexual assault victims on an official website, an incident that highlights how [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson A federal court found Amazon liable for charging parents for unauthorized in-app purchases made by kids, siding with the Federal Trade Commission in a case that stretched [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Twitter showed modest growth in the number of active users on the social network Tuesday, but a gloomy forecast and revenues that missed Wall Street expectations sent [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson What if you didn't have to keep remembering passwords - and instead they were literally inside your head? That's the gist behind new cutting-edge research that explores [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported first-quarter earnings Thursday that fell short of analysts' expectations as advertising revenue slowed more than Wall Street had expected. One of Alphabet's [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson The European regulators on Wednesday announced formal antitrust charges against Google, accusing the tech giant of using its popular Android mobile operating system to push its own [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Google is warning you to watch out for, well, Google. As of Tuesday morning, the search giant's own Safe Browsing tool labels 'google.com' as 'partially dangerous.' The [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson WASHINGTON - The legal fight over Google's effort to create a digital library of millions of book is finally over. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson If your Windows PC still runs Apple's QuickTime, it's time to find another video player. The Department of Homeland Security just issued a warning that recommends removing [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson WASHINGTON - Email inboxes can hold some of our most intimate secrets -- and a bill making its way through Congress could make it harder for government [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson and Jena McGregor Facebook and Microsoft said they pay men and women virtually the same in announcements made on the eve of Equal Pay Day, which marks [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson The threat of hacking seems to lurk around every corner, but American universities may not be doing enough to prepare the next generation of cyberdefenders. None of [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson Global stocks plugged ahead as oil surged Friday, but it was not enough to make up for a week where markets seesawed amid uncertainty about global economic [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson U.S. markets slipped Thursday after rebounding Wednesday, when rallying oil prices and new insights into Federal Reserve policy suggested that the central bank will take a cautious [...]

Byline: Andrea Peterson U.S. futures tradings suggest markets may open down after rebounding Wednesday, when rallying oil prices and new insights into Federal Reserve policy suggested that the central bank [...]