File-sharing has long had a reputation for being a veritable petri dish for viruses and/or credential or identity theft, but web-storage and sharing provider Dropbox is now offering two-factor authentication to thwart would-be hackers.

Victorinox, maker of the Swiss Army knife, has abruptly discontinued its security offering for the Swiss Army-branded line of portable USB memory sticks.

In what many would consider a bizarre case in Australia, an accused man says the evidence against him was obtained illegally when an iPad owner electronically tracked a stolen iPad via GPS to his property.

Senator Mark Leno’s SB 1434, the Location Privacy Bill, has been passed by the California Assembly with a bipartisan vote of 63-11. Having now passed both chambers of the state legislature, the bill is headed towards Governor Jerry Brown.

Earlier this month Google made some fundamental changes to the way in which Google Wallet operates. The main difference is that the ‘active’ part of payment has been shifted from the handheld device to Google’s servers; that is, the cloud.

Arxan’s new study shows that more than 90% of top paid mobile apps have been hacked. App developers need to take note of this, and defend their own market.

Hacktivism cuts both ways. The biter gets bit, and a war evolves. Where there is war, there are weapons. And where there are weapons, there is collateral damage. There is a hacktivist war around Julian Assange, between his detractors and his defenders …

A detailed analysis of the Quervar.C virus, currently running amok in The Netherlands, shows similarities beyond the likelihood of coincidence with the pre-existing Induc.C virus.