IBT Staff Reporter

Digital activist group Anonymous Operations has hacked into Iranian government servers and procured over 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Hackers broke into Sony Corp's computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant's systems, the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company.

After alleged hackers in China compromised the personal e-mail accounts of top-notch American officials, military personnel and journalists, the world attention has shifted to cyber warfare and similar attacks that have happened in the past.

Senior euro zone officials have agreed in principle on a new three-year adjustment program for Greece to run until mid-2014 and involve increased external funding, a source close to the negotiations said on Thursday.

Social networking site Facebook will touch one billion users by 2012 and the fastest growth is coming from Brazil, with Facebook picking up another 1.9 million users in May, according to statistics site Social Bakers.

Mazda Motor will cease production in the United States by around 2013 and cancel its joint venture with Ford as the automaker is reviewing its global production system, the Nikkei business daily reported on its website on Friday.

Stocks steadied, bond yields dipped and the euro rose to a one-month high versus the dollar on Friday as investors braced for a key U.S. jobs report that could feed debate over whether the economy is headed for a protracted slowdown.

U.S. employment probably lost steam in May as high energy prices and the effects of Japan's earthquake bogged down the economy.

Cyber security is now a diplomatic priority for the United States with Washington looking to build relationships to tackle information theft and reduce the risk of conflict, a senior official said.

Apple has submitted a new patent that may cause some grumbling among iPhone customers' restrictive use on their camera. The patent will involved an infrared sensor system that can receive data through its surrounding environment using light, audio, and infrared transmissions to detect live music venues, theatre, movie, or stage show performances. The iPhone would then block users from recording the show if it detects any infrared signals containing encoded data. So if for any reason the iP...

China must make mastering cyber-warfare a military priority as the Internet becomes the crucial battleground for opinion and intelligence, two military officers said on Friday, two days after Google revealed hacking attacks that it said came from China.

Online radio company Pandora Media Inc filed terms for $109.5 million IPO on Thursday, as it moves ahead with an offering that could tap into the recent investor enthusiasm for Internet stocks.

Italian fashion house Prada plans to use most of the proceeds from its Hong Kong initial public offering on expansion and renovation of its stores over the next 18 months as the company bets on increasing demand for luxury products in China and the rest of Asia.

The recent Gmail hack involving stolen passwords are now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. State Department. Google has pointed fingers to China, saying the cyber attack originated from there, which prompted responses from both China and the U.S officials.

Dwyane Wade scored 21 points and the Miami Heat scored the final nine points of the second quarter to tie the Dallas Mavericks 51-51 at halftime in Game 2 of the NBA finals Thursday night.

Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google Inc revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China.

One of the most anticipated new services coming from Apple, theiCloud, will be provided for free initially, according to sources whospoke to LA Times.

Jurors couldn't believe a word said by police officers accused of fixing traffic tickets for friends and loved ones when they cleared a former Bronx prosecutor on felony DWI charges, Thursday.

Jaycee Dugard chose not to be present on Thursday when her kidnappers, including the man who raped and fathered two children with her when she was just a teenager.

A look back at China and Google's history against each other.

Jurors couldn't believe a word said by police officers accused of fixing traffic tickets for friends and loved ones when they cleared a former Bronx prosecutor on felony DWI charges, Thursday.

Suspicion that some individual or entity in China was behind a recent cyber attack on Lockheed Martin is growing among experts and agencies looking into the incident.

Daily deals site Groupon Inc filed for an initial public offering, hoping to capitalize on the biggest investor stampede into Web start-ups since the dotcom bubble burst a decade ago.

In this wealthy eastern Chinese city known for its shrewd merchants, the owner of a factory that makes spectacles faces a difficult task: closing his money-losing business and dismissing his workers.

Credit Suisse must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a semiconductor manufacturer over failed auction-rate securities, though a U.S. appeals court on Thursday reduced an arbitrator's award against the bank by roughly $75 million.

Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google Inc revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China.

The latest iPhone 5 rumor mill says AT&T will get 4G, while Verizon will not.

A recent deadly E.coli outbreak in Europe has already killed 18 people, 17 of them in Germany. The 17th German victim, an 81-year-old woman passed away in the early hours of Thursday morning from the enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) bacterium, a kidney specialist at the clinic in the northern city of Hamburg said.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) introduced a new symbol for healthy eating today and stopped using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20-year-old food pyramid was the basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States.