Hell hath no fury like a hacker scorned, it seems, as a Dutch hacking crew called TeaMp0ison has effectively declared a cyberwar between its members and the LulzSec hacktivist group.

A rising volume of research has suggested of late that internet users make frequent re-use of passwords, as well as using relatively weak passwords that are easy to brute force hack. Now a security researcher claims his research suggests that – irony o…

As the first arrest allegedly associated with the LulzSec hacktivist group has taken place, Rob Rachwald, director of security with Imperva, has detailed who the group’s leaders are.

Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) took Citigroup to task for not informing its credit card holders about the data breach affecting 360,000 North American customers, during a Tuesday hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.

Germany has launched a national cyber defense center in Bonn aimed mainly at protecting critical national infrastructure from cyber attacks.

Kaspersky Lab has announced that a new feature of its security software – File Advisor – will use cloud threat intelligence to verify the safety of Adobe PDF files.

As the first arrest allegedly associated with the LulzSec hacktivist group has taken place, Rob Rachwald, director of security with Imperva has detailed who the group’s leaders are.

Over half of IT personnel view everyday threats from malware and spyware as their number one security concern, not headline-grabbing attacks like Stuxnet, Night Dragon, and Operation Aurora, according to a survey by vulnerability management provider eE…

The website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is reported to have been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for most of the last 24 hours.

The rash of apparently successful hacks against major corporates in recent weeks has hit the headlines but, says Rik Ferguson, director of security research with Trend Micro, it does not represent an internet meltdown as some experts are saying.