Russian media outlets and an election watchdog said they were the targets of cyberattacks during the recent Russian elections.

In its latest escapade dubbed Operation Robin Hood, Anonymous is vowing to steal credit cards and use them to donate money to charities and the “99%” of people who are poor.

A feature that comes standard with Windows 7 would have prevented the hack of RSA, which compromised the SecureID tokens used by some of the biggest names in the US defense industry, wrote Qualys researcher Rodrigo Branco.

The contractor who helped install the industrial control system for the Curran-Gardner Public Water District in Springfield, Illinois, said the water pump allegedly hacked by the Russians in fact just burned out.

Nearly a quarter of organizations around the world were victims of cybercrime in the last 12 months, according PricewaterhouseCooper’s 2011 Global Economic Crime Survey.

Hackers who want a job with the UK government’s GCHQ intelligence service need to crack a code to get an interview.

Global cybersecurity spending is predicted to total $60 billion this year and to grow 10% per year for the next three to five years.

A security flaw found in, but not necessarily limited to, HP printers can be exploited by hackers to take full control of printer functions, according to researchers at Columbia University.

Research published today by Trusteer claims to show cybercriminals have widened the services they provide as a one-stop-shop to third-party fraudsters.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) are basic information security practices that can be applied to the cloud environment in the same way as traditional environments, said Tabatha Greiner, executive consultant for global PCI qua…