A rising number of attacks against government sites and industrial control systems shows the need for ever-greater vigilance by national authorities, writes Peter Apps

Boris Johnson is to meet Donald Trump's national security adviser in Washington DC on Tuesday to attempt to draw a line under the diplomatic row sparked by claims Britain spied on the president, it is understood.

Donald Trump has said the White House should not be criticised for quoting a Fox News analyst who accused British intelligence of helping former president Barack Obama spy on him.

Cyber criminals have infected online menus in popular restaurants in a bid to obtain information about large corporations, a US security expert said.

One of the world's most wanted people-smugglers has been arrested.

It is known as Britain’s listening post, operating secretly to detect threats against national security.

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TAIWAN:  Budai, a township in southwest Taiwan, is building a church in the form of a giant high-heeled shoe, made of metal and blue glass tiles, seeking to attract more tourists to the area.

USA: A man who authorities say was growing marijuana in a central Florida storage unit panicked when he heard a police helicopter hovering nearby and called 911 to surrender.

Snooping requests made by British authorities to Twitter have more than doubled — but the network rejects about half of them.

Britain has been forced to withdraw intelligence agents from operations because Russia and China have obtained access to secret information in files stolen by US whistleblower Edward Snowden, senior UK government sources have indicated.

A former head of the Royal Navy has branded Edward Snowden a “traitor” and “irresponsible” after the US whistleblower declined to reveal if he had read every document he leaked to the press.

An intelligence sharing regime between UK and US security services was unlawful, a surveillance watchdog has ruled.

David Cameron has described receiving a call from a hoaxer amid an investigation into how Downing Street security was breached.

A hoax caller who rang GCHQ just hours before a prank call was put through to the British Prime Minister has claimed he was high on drink and drugs at the time, described the situation as “hilarious” and said he was going to do it again.

A hoax caller - claiming to be the director of eavesdropping agency GCHQ - was put through to the British Prime Minister.

The group will conduct simulated cyber attacks on Wall Street and London's financial district.

New leaked files from Edward Snowden seem to show that UK authorities have tapped the underwater cables that carry data from Ireland to the UK and beyond.

Facebook has blood on its hands, according to the sister of Lee Rigby, after a report found the social network failed to take action over an online chat in which one of the killers vowed to slay a soldier.

Intelligence agencies in the UK could not prevent the murder of soldier Lee Rigby despite his killers featuring in a total of seven error-filled operations before the attack, a British parliamentary watchdog has found.

A former journalist who claims he was framed for the unsolved murder of a French film-maker has said he should not have been made a suspect based on what he regards as concocted or manufactured evidence.

The new head of Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency has accused internet firms of being "in denial" over the role their networks play in terrorism and demanded they open themselves up more to intelligence services.

The new head of Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency has accused internet firms of being “in denial” of the role their networks play in terrorism and demanded they open themselves up more to intelligence services.

Benedict Cumberbatch has said he wants to continue acting well into his seventies.

Police intelligence officers withheld some information from detectives investigating the Omagh bombing in which 29 people were killed, a new probe has found.

Britain has a new “M” – the next head of MI6 has been unveiled.

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Britain’s top counter-terrorism official says the country’s espionage rules allow its electronic spy agency to routinely intercept online communications between Britons who use US-based platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google.

Mysterious street artist Banksy appears to have unveiled his latest creation — targeting the issue of government surveillance.

Mysterious street artist Banksy appears to have unveiled his latest creation in the UK - targeting the issue of Government surveillance.

The inventor of the world wide web has called for a global digital “bill of rights” similar to the Magna Carta to protect internet users as the medium he created prepared to mark its 25th anniversary.

The inventor of the world wide web has called for a global digital “bill of rights” similar to the Magna Carta to protect internet users as the medium he created prepared to mark its 25th anniversary.

The internet has give rise to celebrities whose fame and achievements may have otherwise gone unknown in a previous age. Here is a look at some of those who have been made famous with the help of the web.

Taking on cyber criminals on the ‘dark net’ requires new expertise and cross-border laws given that it is too big a battle for any one police force, writes European Correspondent Ann Cahill.

It has been claimed that the National Security Agency in the US has collected up to 200 million text messages a day from across the world.

The US National Security Agency is making strides towards building a “quantum computer” that could break nearly any kind of encryption, The Washington Post has reported.

IN Jan 2012, an image appeared on the anarchic internet forum 4chan that set the world’s best codebreakers against one another, challenging them to solve a highly complex and sophisticated puzzle.

Humanitarian charities, an Israeli prime minister and a European Union commissioner were among 1,000 targets on a surveillance list drawn up by British and American intelligence agencies, it has been reported.

American and British intelligence has been spying on gamers across the world, media outlets have reported, saying that the world’s most powerful espionage agencies packed virtual universes with undercover agents and surreptitiously monitored online fantasy games such as World of Warcraft.

Twitter has used an “impossible” mathematical problem first discovered by intelligence organisation GCHQ to protect its users from electronic snooping.