The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning consumers to protect their personal information when downloading mobile apps, ahead of the busiest day of the year for app downloads. In tandem, it also issued guidance to help developers look…

The US, originator of Black Friday holiday sales and the dubious homeland of in-store, post-Thanksgiving brawls over hot toys (remember Tickle-Me Elmo?), has been hit with the largest retail breach of credit and debit card information of 2013. In fact,…

In Part 3 of our week-long look at industry predictions, we examine the effect and influence of government. There are two primary aspects: the influence of government (regulations); and the effect of government (which has been shown in the latter half …

Bruce Schneier, BT’s security futurologist, is leaving the company after eight years. In June 2013 he joined the board of digital rights firm Electronic Frontier Foundation, and has – since the Snowden revelations began – been a fierce critic of NSA/GC…

A slaving operation masquerading as a legitimate add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser has created a 12,500-PC strong botnet army whose purpose is to find exploitable websites.

The US Department of Energy’s failure to address known cybersecurity weaknesses was a direct cause of a July 2013 data breach that affected more than 104,000 individuals, according to federal auditors.

The internet is a pretty busy place, with traffic increasing year over year exponentially. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, global IP traffic has increased more than fourfold in the past five years, and will increase threefold in the com…

NSA Information Assurance Director Debora Plunkett made a remarkable accusation on CBS 60 Minutes: the NSA had spotted and foiled a plot to unleash a supervirus capable of bricking computers. “The attack would have been disguised as a request for a sof…

Earlier this week a politically motivated group of Swedish investigative journalists linked some supposedly anonymous right-wing comments posted via Disqus to their actual authors. While several of the authors freely admitted to the posts, it also led …

Word that mobile malware is rather pervasive has been making the rounds for months, but a new report has found that a shocking 100% of the Top 100 paid Android apps and 56% of the Top 100 paid Apple iOS apps have been hacked. Averaged together, users h…