SECURITY

For Chinese shipping executive Ping Bo buying gold is the best way to protect his family's wealth and give his 10-year-old son a headstart into adulthood.

Gold futures rose slightly on Wednesday, as increases in the price of the precious metal were spurred on by a weaker dollar but limited by profit-taking. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, Gold for February delivery, rose $4.30, or 0.3^*1, to $1,659.90 an ounce.

Canadian police have charged a military official with leaking government secrets to a foreign entity, the first case in recent memory of a Canadian facing espionage charges at home.

We've spent over 12 years building our reputation, brand, and trust with our customers, said Hsieh in an apologetic note. It's painful to see us take so many steps back due to a single incident. I supposed the one saving grace is that the secure database that stores our customers' critical credit card and other payment data was not affected or accessed, the CEO added.

It looks like pennies do add up. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced Thursday that it had collected more than $400,000 in spare change left by airline passengers at airport security checkpoints operated by the agency in 2011.

Leaders of a congressional subcommittee are urging the Department of Homeland Security to extensively monitor social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to detect current or emerging threats.

A top federal prosecutor has a message for companies: If you've been hacked, tell us.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring many popular Web sites, including social media like Facebook and Twitter, since June 2010 as a part of a privacy compliance review, according to a report detailing the list.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document.

China has detained four people and punished eight for a series of data breaches last month that severely undermined trust in the country's internet security, the official People's Daily reported on Wednesday.

The birth of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York has caused much stress to a dad who says the couple's ultra-tight security stopped him from visiting his two prematurely born twin daughters in the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital.

Silver for March delivery, the most actively traded contract on the Comex, was up 25 cents to $28.93 and spot silver was up 10 cents to $28.85.

Deutsche Bank said Friday negative real interest rates, central bank buying, dollar weakness and prospects for a European Central Bank balance sheet expansion augur well for gold prices to achieve a 12th consecutive annual gain.

Gold mining stocks fluctuated around the unchanged mark during regular-session trading on Thursday, as miners tracked the price of physical gold, which saw some choppy trading itself.

The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users.

Mobile phones, long seen as safe amid rising threats to computer security, have become a key target for hackers and an increasing worry for corporate IT departments.

A fall in overseas gold market failed to lift physical demand in India, the world's top consumer, as the depreciating rupee kept prices steady in the local market.

A well-known expert on mobile phone security says vulnerability in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones, leading to new scam.

U.S. security think tank Strategic Forecasting Inc said its website had been hacked and that some of the names of corporate subscribers had been made public.

U.S. security think tank Strategic Forecasting Inc said its website had been hacked and that some of the names of corporate subscribers had been made public.

Iran has moved most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting companies to new computer facilities inside the country, to protect them against cyber attacks, a senior official said on Tuesday.