Around two million Massachusetts citizens, one out of every three state residents, had personal information compromised through data theft or loss since the beginning of 2010, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley.

The Dutch government is revoking the DigiNotar’s subordinate certificate authorities (CAs) under the Staat der Nederlanden root certificates.

The breach of websites hosted by Go Daddy was likely the result of a phishing attack, said Nicholas Percoco, head of Trustwave SpiderLabs.

As reported elsewhere over the weekend, a 23-year-old Arizona man was arrested late last week in connection with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in May and was, according to security researcher Brian Krebs, a model student who saw himself one d…

If you use Facebook, you’ll undoubtedly have noticed a series of major changes to your web interface over the last few days. According to a Trend Micro solutions architect, users should not lose sight of the fact that the underlying data remains intact…

It looks as though the security of the password system on Apple’s OS X Lion operating system has been compromised, with a security researcher claiming that there is a workaround that allows users to crack the password on a Mac system that has been pass…

Avast, the central European IT security vendor, has acquired ITAgents, an Austrian developer of Google Android apps, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition has already completed, Infosecurity understands.

Cybersecurity startups often fail to attract venture capital (VC) because investors want to invest in companies that will makes millions quickly, but not all information security startup are interested in that model, observed Chris Wysopal, founder and…

The prevalence and intensity of SQL injection attacks are increasing, according to Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) report.

Two security researchers claim to have found a way of breaking the SSL/TLS encryption that is widely used to guarantee the reliability and privacy of data exchanged between web browsers and servers.