The General Accounting Office (GAO) is warning that insecurity in the global IT supply chain is putting US national security agencies at risk.

The MilitarySingles.com website has apparently been hacked by LulzSec Reborn, exposing user information on 170,000 members.

In a major action against the banking trojan Zeus, Microsoft with FS-ISAC and NACHA and research from Kyrus Tech and F-Secure have succeeded in disrupting a number of the most harmful Zeus botnets in “in an unprecedented, proactive cross-industry actio…

The US government has issued new counterterrorism guidelines that allow for the retention of intelligence on US citizens for five years, rather than the current 180 days.

Managed health care consortium Kaiser Permanente has notified thousands of current and former employees that their personal information was found on an external hard drive purchased in a second-hand store in California.

PwC and Iron Mountain have joined together to develop a risk maturity index for European SMEs; and finds them generally lacking.

Encrypted searching should become available by default for all Firefox users within a few months – a big win for privacy.

On the same day that the Sunday Times reported Indian workers offering UK finance details for sale at as little as 0.02p, the Observer reported that IBM contractors in India will have access to the data of 43 million UK drivers held by the DVLA.

In an apparent effort to turn the public relations tables, China is claiming that most of the foreign cyberattacks against Chinese computers are coming from Japan, the US, and South Korea.

Two southern California men pled guilty this week to participating in a PIN-pad tampering scheme at 84 Michaels craft stores that resulted in the theft of 94,000 debit and credit card account numbers.