Computer technician Leon Walker faces five years in jail for hacking into his wife’s email account to confirm suspicions that she was having an affair with her ex-husband.

Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, admitted that it accidentally posted sensitive information about the users of its addons.mozilla.org site to a public web server.

Because of a major increase in cyber attacks this year, the German government plans to set up a national cyber defense center in 2011.

British defense firm BAE Systems has agreed to acquire ETI A/S, a Danish cybersecurity firm, for approximately $212 million.

Incoming Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), has tapped Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) to lead a cybersecurity initiative in the next Congress.

A number of VA facilities have violated the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prohibition on using online tools to share patients’ information among facilities.

Although military-grade encrypted VOIP software for the iPhone has been around for while, the highly specialised software has been quite expensive, typically running into three figures. Now a Florida-based firm has released a 256-bit encrypt VOIP app f…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Intel’s $7.7bn acquisition of security software giant, McAfee.

IT security software vendor BitDefender has linked up with peer-to-peer data development company BitTorrent – which developed the file-sharing protocol of the same name – to offer the 80 million estimated users of the protocol an integrated malware det…

Inadvertent disclose of sensitive information by well-meaning workers will pose the greatest information security threat to organizations in the coming year, according to Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy at Ipswitch.