Apple is issuing a security update after powerful spyware was found targeting an activist's iPhone in the Middle East.

Italy’s Hacking Team, which makes surveillance software used by governments to police the web, appears to be the victim of hacking on a grand scale itself.

Russia has installed an all- encompassing surveillance system at the site of next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi that will allow security services to listen in on athletes and visitors, security analysts claimed.