A warrant has been issued for the arrest of an Irishman accused of torturing his roommate’s cat, after it emerged he left the US and returned home.

Hackers have leaked 22,175 FBI employees’ names, job titles and contact details.

Russia is leading the way, as new technology is combined with old spying techniques, says Owen Matthews

The daughter of one of two Irish soldiers who was tortured and killed while on UN peacekeeping duty says she hopes their alleged murderer will soon stand trial.

A security flaw in some versions of Internet Explorer could let hackers to gain access and take full control of people’s computers.

Two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al Qaida elements in Iran.

Two men were have been arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al Qaida, police said tonight.

Facebook was targeted by hackers in what it said was a sophisticated attack.

Mac computers have stopped running programmes written using the Java programming language in their browsers as Apple has blocked it because of security problems.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has strongly defended the sharing of personal information of air travellers to the US and said the system had resulted in the prevention and investigation of terrorism and organised crime.

Wikileaks has begun publishing a huge number of emails from US intelligence firm Stratfor in a move the anti-secrecy website said revealed the “private lies of private spies”.

Google is blaming computer hackers in China for a high-tech ruse that broke into the personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior US government officials, military personnel and political activists.

AMERICAN officers are taking up posts at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport to help identify potential terrorists or other high-risk passengers heading to the United States.

Passport services could be shifted to another department or even outsourced to private operators as the applications backlog smashed the 50,000 barrier, top Government officials warned today.

Travellers from across Ireland face new requirements when visiting the US, it was announced today.

Three Islamic militants from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing a “profound hatred of US citizens” were arrested on suspicion of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks targeting Americans in Germany, prosecutors said today.

A PROPOSED agreement to hand over personal information about every passenger flying from the EU to the US is contrary to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, the EU’s data protection officer has said.

US authorities are in “close contact” with their UK counterparts over the car bombs discovered in London, the US Department of Homeland Security said today.

Visitors from European nations travelling with visas or visa-free to the United States will soon have to give 10 digital fingerprints when entering the United States, a senior US Homeland Security official said today.

A MAN who was refused permission to return to the US, after a brief visit home last Christmas, is to return there and be reunited with his pregnant wife.

Iconic British ports and ferries company P&O was today said to be looking at a shock return to the London stock market just months after it set sail for Dubai.

THE chief executive of shipping operations on the Shannon Estuary yesterday condemned highly expensive security measures being forced on Irish ports by the US government.

FINE GAEL last night demanded the creation of a powerful Oireachtas watchdog committee able to sound alarm bells over potentially disastrous projects before taxpayers' money is wasted on them.

President George Bush was briefed by senior aides today on the evacuation of three London Tube stations.

Fidel Castro today led hundreds of thousands of people past the American mission to demand the arrest of a Cuban militant who is living in Miami while Venezuela tries to extradite him for a deadly airliner bombing.

Microsoft has launched a cyber-tracking system to help Scotland Yard and police forces all over the world hunt down internet child porn traffickers.

Two teenage girls from Bangladesh and Guinea were arrested on charges of immigration violations after the FBI claimed that they planned to become suicide bombers and posed a threat to US security, according to a report.

The war on terror could have an unlikely ally in a modest mollusc known as the quahog.

IRISH biometric security specialists Daon plan to take the Japanese market by storm after winning a crucial identity-processing contract from the US Department of Homeland Security.

SINGER Cat Stevens is taking legal action against the United States to discover why he was refused entry into the country.

BAE Systems was today preparing to play a more central role in the war on terror after acquiring a leading IT supplier to the Pentagon.

AIR MARSHALS have been caught sleeping on the job, have lost their weapons and tested positive for drugs and alcohol, according to a new report.

BAE Systems today moved closer to landing a multi-billion dollar contract to protect commercial aircraft from missile attack.

EU INSTITUTIONS are set for a major legal challenge against each other about an agreement to hand over details of air passengers to the US government - a measure introduced as a key part of the international fight against terrorism.

The newly-elected European Parliament launched itself with a bang this afternoon – taking EU governments to court over air passenger privacy rights.

Armed guards on airliners would make travel more dangerous, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said today.

BRITISH AIRWAYS cancelled another London-Washington flight yesterday as fears of a September 11-style attack grounded a US-bound plane for the seventh time in just over a week.

British Airways security officials are deciding today whether to operate its afternoon flight to Washington after cancelling yesterday’s service because of fears over security.

PERSONAL details of all air passengers flying to America, including credit card details and home addresses, will be handed over to US authorities under a deal agreed with the EU.

Anyone flying to America will now find airlines will have to pass on numerous personal details to US authorities, it was disclosed today.

AL-QAIDA terrorists are training to use a chemical-based bomb which could be stuffed into clothes, pillows or toys and smuggled on board an airliner, it was reported yesterday.

Al Qaida terrorists are training to use a chemical-based bomb which could be stuffed into clothes, pillows or toys and smuggled on board an airliner, it was reported today.

Italy has been warned that al-Qaida terrorists using Italian passports may try to hijack a plane in Croatia and crash it into American interests in the region, a newspaper reported today.