Trevor Pearce ‘gave misleading information to MPs’

Met detectives investigating historic evidence of computer hacking buried for years by Soca only received key information last week

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WSJ alleges that FBI can remotely activate Android microphones and cameras

New reports from a source speaking to the WSJ disclose the bureau's 'hacker tactics'

Supporters of Bradley Manning outside the gates at Fort Meade on Tuesday

Wikileaks trial: We’re not celebrating, says Bradley Manning's lawyer as sentencing of US army analyst begins

The US soldier could face up to 136 years in prison for passing on secrets to WikiLeaks

SOCA has refused to disclose the names of companies who commissioned corrupt private investigators who broke the law

Revealed: Major blue-chip companies escape censure over use of corrupt private investigators

List handed to MPs includes law firms, construction companies and two famous celebrities - but no media group or newspaper

Bradley Manning leaves the courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland

Julian Assange says Bradley Manning verdict is 'dangerous precedent' as whistleblower faces sentencing

Charge carried possible life sentence, although he will now be sentenced after convictions on lesser charges of espionage and theft

Exclusive: Met dragged into blue-chip hacking saga as MPs demand Hogan-Howe releases details on rogue investigators

Scotland Yard was dragged into the blue-chip hacking scandal last night after Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe was asked to release suppressed information from four little-known investigations into rogue private detective agencies.

The headquarters of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, in Vauxhall, London

MI6 and MI5 'refuse to use Lenovo computers' over claims Chinese company makes them vulnerable to hacking

Lenovo - the largest PC producer in the world - is indirectly backed by the Chinese state

Committee chairman Keith Vaz MP

Public 'impotent in their judgment' without names over blue-chip hacking, say MPs

Home Secretary expected to announce this week that private investigators will be regulated for first time

China's police, controlled by the Ministry of Public Security, are notorious for human rights abuses

China's secret police to take part in UK seminar - and no mention of human rights allowed

Seminar for officials to be held at Cambridge University features 24-member delegation from notorious Ministry of Public Security

Charlotte Harris, of law firm Mishcon de Reya which had hired private investigators

Blue-chip hacking: Ministers plan crackdown on rogue private investigators

PIs will need a licence and will be banned if found guilty of blagging personal information

Computer hacker Barnaby Jack found dead at San Francisco home

Jack became famous for making cash machines spit out bank notes

view of the interior of the McLaren MP4-12C high-performance sports car in New York September 16, 2010. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Researchers hack cars to remotely control steering and brakes

As more electronics are introduced into vehicles the danger from hacking attacks also rises

Bradley Manning is led by a military police officer as he arrives for trial at Fort Meade

Bradley Manning trial: Wikileaks whistleblower is a 'gleeful, grinning' traitor, says prosecutor

The judge in the case is due to issue verdicts within days

Julian Assange launches 'Wikileaks Party' by videolink from the Ecuadorian embassy

Mr Assange announced his own candidacy for a seat in the Australian Senate in the national elections later this year

the Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher (R2B2) cracks the PIN number safeguarding your phone by simply trying every possible combination

3D-printed 'Robotic Button Basher' cracks phones' PINs using persistence, luck

Created by Justin Engler and Paul Vines, the bot simply guesses all the possible PIN combinations

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