The discovery of the Mediyes trojan using a valid digital signature has raised concerns about the need for proper key management, noted John Grimm with Thales e-Security.

The US government has evidence that Chinese hackers were responsible for the breach of RSA last year that compromised the company’s “underlying software” and required the replacement of hundreds of SecurID tokens, a top national security official told …

Chris Aragon, one of the leaders of the ID theft and fraud forum known as the Carders Market, has pled guilty to stealing thousands of personal identities and counterfeiting credit cards to buy high-end goods that were resold on eBay and craigslist.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with the social gaming site RockYou over charges it failed to protect the privacy of its users, enabling hackers to access personal information on 32 million users in 2009.

Organized digital crime is growing – but we still know little about the structure of organized digital crime groups. A new report from BAE Detica Systems and the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Security at London Metropolitan University seeks to ch…

The Australian government has blocked China’s Huawei Technologies from participating in the country’s AUS$36 billion national broadband network (NBN) project because of cybersecurity concerns.

A Belarusian named Dmitry Naskovets has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for operating CallService.biz, an online site that helped over 2,000 identity thieves commit fraud, federal authorities announced on Friday.

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…