Wisegate, a newly formed social networking site for information security professionals, has added a privacy and compliance micro-community for senior-level privacy and compliance professionals.

The CA/Browser Forum, a consortium of certificate authorities (CAs), has released the first international baseline requirements for the operation of CAs issuing SSL/TLS certificates.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is investigating a link between a data breach at the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) and drive-by shootings and arson in the Canadian province.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested a hacker associated with Anonymous for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the website of Gene Simmons, front man for the band KISS and reality TV celebrity.

Ancestry.com, the online commercial genealogy service, has decided to remove from its website Social Security numbers (SSNs) of individuals deceased in the last 10 years out of security concerns.

Nonprofit advocacy group Free Press is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate Verizon Wireless for blocking the Google Wallet application on the Android-powered Galaxy Nexus smartphone allegedly over security concerns.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a revised version of its Electronic Authentication Guideline (now NIST SP 800-63-1), originally published in 2006 as NIST SP 800-63.

The recent explosion in Android malware is due to the popularity of the mobile operating system and the shift in malware distribution methods from worms to applications, according to a recent white paper by security firm McAfee.

Malware in Android apps is a growing concern among security researchers. Now Symantec has discovered 11 more malicious apps. We ask what Google should be doing.

Cyber attacks could cost lives and cause huge damage, according to Ludolf Luehmann, an IT manager for Royal Dutch Shell.