The Libyan government could pull the plug on the country’s internet as protests sweep the country.

The self-styled Iranian Cyber Army was able to hack into the US government-funded Voice of America website and transform the home page into a pro-Iranian banner that instructed the US government to “stop interfering with Islamic countries.”

The UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS) violated the Data Protection Act when it lost the passport renewal applications of 21 UK citizens, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved flawed cybersecurity standards for the US national power grid and failed to adequately monitor their implementation, according to an audit by the Department of Energy’s Office of the Inspector Ge…

Reports that President Obama is formulating plans to develop an internet ‘kill switch’, following infrastructure issues raised during the aftermath of the Egypt internet shutdown, should be viewed as a red flag to IT security professionals.

It seems that Russian police are working steadily to crush the rising tide of so-called pharma spam campaigns, with one security researcher having heard about a raid on the hackers behind the Rx-Promotions scheme.

A German IT security vendor has discovered a version of Zeus that has been signed with its own digital certificate – a move that could fool some corporates into installing the malware thinking it is a legitimate piece of code.

Credant Technologies has started testing its data encryption technology in the cloud with a select number of beta test clients, promising other cloud security offerings in the near future.

A security researcher has detailed how a flaw has been discovered and exploited on Rapidshare, the world’s largest file-sharing service.

Oracle is fixing 21 flaws in its Java SE and Java for Business products in its February critical patch update issued this week.