Sony’s So-net Entertainment admitted that its customer rewards site was hacked and that customers’ email accounts were compromised and redeemable gift points stolen.

The vulnerability identified by NSS Labs researchers in Siemens’ programmable logic controllers (PLCs) is only a part of larger security issues, according to NSS Labs president Rick Moy.

Trident Media Guard, the French company tasked with monitoring internet piracy under the country’s ‘three strikes’ rule, is reported to have taken legal action against the hacker that attacked its servers.

F-Secure claims that Sony’s servers have been hacked yet again and its systems are hosting a live phishing site.

Researchers in Australia have staged a live internet telephony crack which they claim shows the security vulnerabilities of using a Cisco internet phone.

Researchers with the American University of Beirut are reported to be working on enhancing previous methods of uniquely identifying users by the speed and rhythm with which their passwords are entered.

Browser security specialist Trusteer claims that a recent SpyEye-driven attack on Verizon highlights a new strategy by cybercriminals, who are using financial malware to specifically target online merchant’s websites.

It seems that cybercriminals are keeping up with the times by diversifying from so-called carder forums to sell stolen card credentials, and onto the Twitter micro-blogging service.

Employee security awareness, firewalls, data leakage protection, and collaboration are all key components of a healthy information security ecosystem, according to a panel at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium held Wednesday.

VMware has released an iPhone app designed to manage identities across both cloud and virtual server environments. Known as the Horizon App Manager, the iOS app is one of the first results of Project Horizon, which VMware announced last summer.