A number of TripAdvisor members may receive spam after hackers stole email details from the travel website.

Play.com’s chief executive has responded to reports about customer data being compromised via a third-party email marketing service.

Jesse William McGraw, also known as ‘Ghost Exodus’, has been sentenced to 110 months in a federal lock-up this week after pleading guilty to hacking the computer system of a Dallas-area medical complex.

Technology is starting to beat the theft of computing devices. Earlier this week we reported on the successful retrieval of a stolen iPad by an Israeli owner using the MobileMe location service, and now a tech-savvy teenager in the US has traced his Ap…

NetQin, a new Chinese mobile security firm, has been accused by several sources of installing viruses on users’ mobiles when they execute the company’s anti-malware software.

It appears that, within hours of the death of film star Dame Elizabeth Taylor being announced yesterday, cybercriminals were tapping in interest in her life – and death – by launching social engineering frauds on Twitter.

You’re probably familiar with the 3-D Secure system of card security for online transactions – aka Verified by Visa (for Visa) and SecureCode (for MasterCard) – but now a security researcher is reporting that cybercriminals may have found a way around …

A full 63% of US schools have suffered at least two information security breaches in the last year, according to a survey by Panda Security.

McAfee, which was itself recently acquired by Intel, has agreed to purchase Sentrigo, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based database security products firm, for an undisclosed consideration.

Tenable has updated its network security offerings to include what it claims to be world’s first real-time botnet scanning facility.