In the wake of high-profile Twitter and Facebook hackings and about a year after it experienced a password heist, LinkedIn is beefing up its security: it has become the latest web denizen to join the optional two-factor verification fray, and is now of…

Microsoft has kicked off the Cyber Threat Intelligence Program (C-TIP), an outgrowth of its information-sharing initiative around botnets.

Drupal, the open source content management system, is resetting the passwords for nearly one million accounts in the wake of a data breach.

If you haven’t already upgraded your Playstation 3 firmware from 4.31 to the 4.41 version released at the end of last month, now might be a good time to do so – it fixes a bug found by Vulnerability Lab six months ago.

Online child pornography, rather than child sexual abuse, may be a useful distinction to help prevent online offenders developing into physical abusers – thought to be a potential rather than inevitable progression.

Chinese hackers have scored two high-profile cyber-heists, according to reports: they have gained access to designs of more than two dozen major US weapons systems, while also stealing the blueprints for Australia’s new spy headquarters.

A fresh phishing scam looking to capitalize on the popularity of Facebook Fan Pages has thrown a lure in using a security warning.

When details about Microsoft’s new games console, the Xbox One, first began to emerge, privacy campaigners were immediately concerned: is the Xbox One an intrusive but covert surveillance device?

Sky’s Android users may have woken on Sunday morning to headlines screaming ‘Sky UK Apps Compromised on Play Store, Uninstall Them!’ But don’t be too hasty.

When he learned that he was being made redundant from his position as Community Health Promotions Manager at a council-run leisure center, he emailed sensitive medical information on 2471 people to himself to help establish his own new company.