Every EU committee tasked with recommending how the European Parliament should vote on the ratification of the ACTA agreement has now voted: No. But ACTA just won’t lie down.

In what has been described as “the largest coordinated international law enforcement [carding] action in history”, the FBI has arrested 12 US citizens among a total of 24 arrests in eight countries.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against Wyndham Hotels for data security failures that led to three data breaches in less than two years and resulted in the theft of close to 620,000 payment card numbers.

Invincea yesterday announced a $21.4m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) for a secure version of Android phones and tablets.

Hackers are able to bypass CAPTCHA security measures using computer-assisted tools and crowdsourcing to gain access to personal and financial information, Imperva warned in its latest Hacker Intelligence Report.

Spammers and scammers use international events and disasters as the lure for their ware. Euro 2012 provides both: an international event littered with individual disasters when national teams are dismissed.

A new study by Kroll Advisory Solutions highlights the information security risks lurking in oft-neglected places, such as voicemail, conference calls, and even the mailroom.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that software flaws in medical devices are leading to compromises of those devices.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to improve its network security monitoring in response to a failing grade on the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) scorecard, according to Jerry Horton, the agency’s chief…

“Security researcher Brandon Dixon has discovered a way to bypass the Antivirus detection for malicious PDFs,” writes eHackingNews, “using the XML Data Package(XDP) format.” It goes on to add that “opening the malicious XDP file can result in Adobe Rea…