Back in August the FBI announced that it had neutralized Anonymous “because of the dismantlement of the largest players.” This seemed to be confirmed with the October arrest of Brit Lauri Love for hacking thousands of networks including those of federa…

Over the past few weeks, Dragos Ruiu has provided details of a mystery infection that first attacked his computers some three years ago. He can’t find it, he can’t get rid of it, it survives reboots and clean installs, and seems to spread via wireless …

Masterminds behind a large-scale cyber-heist at Fidelity Investments in California have been arrested.

Google has patched 12 security vulnerabilities in the latest version of its browser, Chrome 31, paying out almost $11,000 in bug bounties in the process.

WikiLeaks published Wednesday the full draft text of the intellectual property rights chapter for the secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). TPP is a trade agreement primarily involving Pacific Rim countries (although currently excluding …

A breach of a data center in Ireland has compromised the information of 1.5 million people.

MacRumors was targeted and hacked in a manner similar to the Ubuntu Forums hack in July, announced its founder and editor Tuesday. “It’s best to assume that your MacRumors Forum username, email address and (hashed) password is now known,” he warned.

There have been many suggestions on how Edward Snowden managed to steal so many top secret documents from the NSA; but the NSA has kept quiet. Now new research claims to know how it was done, and challenges the NSA to deny it.

Trustwave, a Chicago-based firm with a wide range of security offerings and a particular specialism in data protection, has bought privately held New York-based Application Security Inc, a specialist in database security. The acquisition is complete, a…

Today is Waking Shark II day – the day the City of London’s cyber resilience is tested in a day long exercise. Details are scarce (it wouldn’t be a test if they were known) but the war game is expected to concentrate on the ability of banks to maintain…