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An online article supposedly reveals the encryption tools that spies can’t hack, but the list doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

Kim Dotcom offered the PSN and Xbox Live hackers, Lizard Squad, vouchers to his MegaPrivacy service, which ‘stopped’ the attacks, but there are still issues preventing many from logging in to both services.

A new piece of dangeorus ransomware has been uncovered and is potentially the 'next Cryptolocker', according to security researchers with Kaspersky.

Almost three months after being alerted to its presence, Apple has taken down from the App Store an allegedly fake Tor Browser containing adware and spyware.

The anonymous drug haven Silk Road has been shut down by US authorities, who also arrested its notorious owner who now faces life in prison.

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, child pornography, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. The FBI has made a massive dent in the TOR network, compromising half of all TOR sites.

Millions of users were locked out of Facebook on Wednesday morning, after an "internal issue" caused the social networking giant to crash temporarily.