US defense firm ManTech has acquired technology security firm HBGary, which was at the center of a controversy last year when it claimed to have infiltrated Anonymous and was then attacked by the hacktivist group.

Global Payments, a third-party payment card processor, has admitted that around 1.5 million credit card numbers may have been stolen in a massive data breach last month, up significantly from the original report of 50,000.

Computer storage devices containing personal information on 800,000 California residents were lost following a disaster recovery exercise held by IBM and Iron Mountain on behalf of the California Department of Child Support Services (DCSS).

In its latest Hacker Intelligence Initiative report, Imperva analyzes remote and local file inclusion (RFI/LFI) attacks as favored by LulzSec.

The EC Data Retention Directive is already in force in the UK as a Statutory Instrument – The Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009. A proposed new bill will now force ISPs and telecommunications providers to make this data available to law en…

Global Payments, an Atlanta-based credit and debit card processor for banks and merchants, has suffered a security breach that has exposed information on at least 50,000 cardholders, the Wall Street Journal reported.

ESET has reported on the latest version of the Blackhole exploit kit, noting that it has been updated to include a recent Java vulnerability.

Hotfile is being sued by Warner Bros (and others) – the MPAA – for copyright infringement; Hotfile is countersuing for bogus copyright infringement claims.

Do-Not-Track (DNT) is the evolving standard that will provide internet users with greater control over their privacy on the internet. “Yahoo websites worldwide will comply with visitors’ Do-Not-Track preferences starting later this year,” said the comp…

The discovery of the Mediyes trojan using a valid digital signature has raised concerns about the need for proper key management, noted John Grimm with Thales e-Security.