Anonymous and the various law enforcement agencies would, at first glance, appear to be pitted against each other. But events suggest that their intentions are remarkably similar.

Finnish online teen community Habbo Hotel has shut down its chat functions after reports of pornographic content, the site announced Wednesday.

Gartner’s John Girard and Lawrence Pingree went in depth on mobile security risks at this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit outside Washington DC. The primary risk to data breaches, as they see it, are allowing jailbroken or rooted dev…

The UK’s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioners Office, has written to Google demanding further information about the collection of personal data via its Street View project.

A disturbing 36% of chief executive officers (CEOs) have never received an information security report from their chief information security officer (CISO), a survey sponsored by CORE Security found.

Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed US attorneys to investigate the leak of information about the US government’s involvement in developing the Stuxnet worm, along with other recent national security breaches.

Michael Dell participated in one of the keynotes at this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Summit outside Washington DC, in what amounted to a fireside chat with Gartner analysts about Dell’s future in IT security.

Barracuda Labs has discovered a new Facebook spam methodology currently being seeded across the social network giant.

SandForce, acquired by LSI earlier this year, produces flash storage and SSD processors. For more than a year it has been selling its SF-2000 SSD Processor product with AES 256 encryption – that doesn’t work.

Six men associated with Confidential Access were given sentences at Southwark Crown Court on Friday (8 June), ranging from 6 years 9 months to 2 years suspended, for “a catalogue of fraud offences.”