German enterprise software maker SAP has agreed to acquire US database and mobility software producer Sybase for $5.8bn.

Microsoft issued two security bulletins on Tuesday for what the company called “critical” patches to the Windows OS, Office suite, and Visual Basic.

A Florida couple accused of selling off patient records from a Miami-area medical center had their plea agreements rejected by a Federal court judge yesterday.

The Maryland Attorney General announced the state has settled a case against payment card processor Mid Atlantic Processing, which allegedly improperly disposed of 77 boxes containing client data.

Reports are coming in that large numbers of Twitter account holders have had their online accounts compromised, with the accounts apparently generating messages advertising a website that claims to help users attract more followers.

A newly released survey from (ISC)² shows that federal CISOs are avoiding cloud computing applications due to concerns about replicating IT security policy in the cloud.

Research just released claims to show that China, the US and the Russian Federation contributed 49% of all web-based threats reported in April 2010.

Fresh from its security problems of earlier in the week when members’ chat sessions were visible to third-party users, Facebook has come under fire for allegedly installing applications on users’ Facebook areas by stealth.

Fresh from releasing a range of encrypted drive kits at last week’s Infosecurity Europe show, Origin Storage says that the steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques – which started when Russia’s Elcomsoft released the first version…

Security professionals lack confidence that political parties will do anything to improve cyber security, according to a survey by security firm Proofpoint.