Raynaldo Rivera (aged 20), aka neuron, royal and wildicv, has been taken into custody following his indictment last week charging him with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer; that is, last year’s Sony hacks.

Imagine a world where sensitive information can be extracted from a brain-computer interface via electronics that quite literally pick your brain for passwords. It may sound like science fiction, but a new experiment into the space has revealed a poten…

Dr Web, the Russian anti-malware company that did much to expose the growth of the Flashback botnet, has found the first Linux/OSX cross-platform trojan – which it calls BackDoor.Wirenet.1

A new Java exploit has been discovered. While not yet widespread, it is in the wild, works with all major browsers, is potentially cross-platform – and has no available patch.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a report on ‘Cyber Incident Reporting in the EU’ and has found implementation gaps: “incidents remain undetected or not reported.”

Hacker collective Team GhostShell is boasting that it has breached more than one million user records from 100 corporate and public affairs websites across a variety of industry segments, and leaked them online.

File-sharing has long had a reputation for being a veritable petri dish for viruses and/or credential or identity theft, but web-storage and sharing provider Dropbox is now offering two-factor authentication to thwart would-be hackers.

Victorinox, maker of the Swiss Army knife, has abruptly discontinued its security offering for the Swiss Army-branded line of portable USB memory sticks.

In what many would consider a bizarre case in Australia, an accused man says the evidence against him was obtained illegally when an iPad owner electronically tracked a stolen iPad via GPS to his property.

Senator Mark Leno’s SB 1434, the Location Privacy Bill, has been passed by the California Assembly with a bipartisan vote of 63-11. Having now passed both chambers of the state legislature, the bill is headed towards Governor Jerry Brown.