Officials with York County, South Carolina, took nine months to notify close to 17,000 job applicants and vendors that their social security numbers were exposed by an intrusion into a web application server.

Windows is not Apple’s iOS, says Mozilla’s top lawyer after the organization complained that Firefox and other browsers would be excluded from Windows RT running on ARM systems.

BeyondTrust, a company that provides privilege delegation and authorization systems with its PowerBroker suite of products, has acquired eEye Digital Security, developer of the Blink and Retina vulnerability management tools.

Security professionals are experiencing an information overload and want better metrics to analyze the data so they can take action, according to a survey conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of RedSeal Networks.

Kansas State University (KSU) has received a five-year, $1 million US Air Force (USAF) contract to study “moving target” defense for networks.

Yesterday we reported that 55,000 Twitter accounts have been leaked on Pastebin. Security researchers Anders Nilsson and Robin Wood have separately analyzed the dump.

The net neutrality provisions approved by the Dutch Parliament last June as part of its implementation of the European telecommunications package became law yesterday.

A spear-phishing campaign aimed at US natural gas pipeline companies has been underway since December of last year, according to the US Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).

There have been several recent examples of Syrian activists being tricked into downloading and installing remote access tools (RATs) that secretly hand control of their computers to a third party.

Apple exposed encryption passwords of FileVault users in its Lion OS X 10.7 security update, says researcher.