The Reserve Bank of Australia has admitted that its been an ongoing target for hackers, although the nation’s central bank says no data has been lost as a result of the attacks.

In what is believed to be an industry first, Tennessee-based footwear and sports apparel retail chain Genesco is suing Visa over a $13 million dollar fine imposed following a data breach in 2010.

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A new vulnerability, CVE-2013-0108, has been discovered in Honeywell industrial control systems (ICS), continuing the growing trend of SCADA and building control issues.

After a fourth quarter of declining spam levels in 2012, junk emails actually almost doubled in February 2013.

Against a background of the EU likely to water down its privacy proposals, and Harvard university secretly searching the emails of 16 resident deans, two major universities have published two very different papers on privacy in the internet age.

Tripwire, a Portland Ore security and compliance company, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire nCircle, a San Francisco risk and security performance management company.

So says an article in the latest issue of New Scientist, commenting on a report published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society last week. The key, apparently, is China’s implementation of Source Address Validation Architecture (SAVA).

Dovetailing with the ever-escalating glut of Android-based mobile malware, it turns out that a black market for Android developer accounts has sprung up. Google Play accounts are apparently going for $100 a pop in the cyber-underground.