Saudi hackers who claim they are members of Anonymous have breached the Israeli ONE sports website and leaked personal information on 400,000 subscribers.

Last month, US defense contractor Raytheon acquired two companies that supply cybersecurity products and services to the US military: Henggeler Computer Consultants and Pikewerks Corp.

Based on its assessment that cyberattacks against critical infrastructure will increase next year, McAfee advises critical infrastructure companies to upgrade their cybersecurity infrastructure.

After an extensive review, Belgian certificate authority (CA) GlobalSign said that no rogue certificates were issued and no customer data were exposed as the result of a breach disclosed in September.

Indian information security firm Paladion Networks has announced plans to set up a dedicated hub in Oman to monitor and respond to cybercrime in the sultanate.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning about a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Sielco Sistemi Winlog application used to control industrial systems.

The browser’s ability to block socially engineered malware, not sandboxing technology, is the most important criteria to judge browser security, argues Rob Rachwald, director of security strategy at data security firm Imperva.

On Tuesday, Mozilla released version 9 of its Firefox browser with fixes for a number of memory safety bugs in the browser engine; then, 24 hours later, it released 9.0.1 to fix a bug that caused Mac, Linux, and Windows users’ browsers to crash.

The hacktivist group Anonymous claimed this week that it took down a dozen Egyptian government websites using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in retaliation for the government’s treatment of protestors.

A $16 million class-action lawsuit has been filed against the UCLA Health System for a data breach that compromised personal information of more than 16,000 patients.