Credit cards with RFID chips provide more data security than cards with magnetic strips, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

The Russian Chronopay electronic payments system is increasingly being used by scamsters behind fake anti-virus software and ‘scareware’ applications, says a leading IT security researcher.

Research just released by Barracuda Networks claims to show that the crime rate on Twitter soared by 20% last year, after a quiet period in the latter part of 2009.

URAC, a nonprofit healthcare accreditation organization, has revised its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security standards.

Google has removed 55 apps from its Android Market after tens of thousands of users downloaded applications that were infected by the DroidDream trojan, according to numerous news reports.

An interesting lawsuit has popped up with California’s RPost, a secure email firm, filing a request for an injunction through the Swiss courts over an alleged breach of its technology patents.

Rob Rachwald, Imperva’s security director, says that his company is adding hackers to the old Benjamin Franklin adage that “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Hacktivists seem to have learned a lot from the WikiLeaks/Anonymous attacks seen in recent months, as an automated DDoS attack has reportedly frozen access to BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy web portal.

One of the features that Apple may reveal later today when it – as is widely expected, launches the iPad 2 – will be an Android-like pattern lock screen for iOS, the operating system of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Complaints lodged with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC³) totaled 303,809 in 2010, the second highest level in the center’s 10-year history.