The US government and MIT/JSTOR had agreed that documents concerning the prosecution of Aaron Swartz could, in part, be made public. The Swartz estate asked for the documents in full. The court has denied the estate and allowed the government and MIT/J…

A new crop of Mideast-originated cyberattacks are targeting the American energy sector, with the intent of sabotage, not just espionage.

A witness statement filed in the high court London claims that Gamma International’s FinFisher (FinSpy) covert surveillance software targeted the computer of a leading Bahraini activist who holds dual British and Bahraini citizenship.

Fraud is big business in China. Last year there were more than 170,000 cases causing losses of more than $12.5 billion. New evidence suggests this might be getting worse with increasingly sophisticated cyber fraud.

Snapchat doesn’t delete expired photos on Android phones – it merely tells the operating system to ignore them. That means they are still available for retrieval with the right forensic software.

A global gang of hackers managed to siphon off $45 million from ATMs thanks to outdated US credit card technology.

Security shouldn’t get in the way of doing business and closing sales, but many organizations are wrestling with data protection strategies that block employees’ ability to get the information they need to do their jobs. Almost half of all employees in…

A Chrome extension called Downloadify allowed DRM-free downloads from Spotify’s library of 20 million songs before remedial action by Spotify and withdrawal from the Chrome store by Google.

As the influx of personal mobile devices into the workplace continues apace, a new survey shows that security is both the top concern and top measure for success for enterprises implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs.

The International Organisation for Standardisation has given its final approval for the development of an international standard for the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI), aimed at giving greater credibility to digital evidence in le…