Pakistani authorities have banned the use of virtual private networks in a crackdown on internet access.

A 43-year-old former finance department employee of web optimization firm Akamai has pleaded guilty to espionage charges in the US.

SparkyBlaze, a former hacktivist with Anonymous, offered some advice to companies to stop hackers, in an interview with Cisco’s Jason Lackey.

A mysterious ATM heist involving just 22 pre-paid debit cards – and hackers allegedly altering the maximum daily withdrawal limits – has reportedly lost an American bank around $13 million.

The website of the Northumbria Police Authority was hacked recently but, according to Chris Boyd, a senior researcher with GFI Software, the hack lives on in Google’s search caches.

Organizations should ensure that their information security, public relations, and legal departments coordinate their response to a hacktivist attack, recommends Greg Nowak with the Information Security Forum (ISF).

Personal information on 350,000 South Koreans was breached as a result of a hack of Epson Korea’s website.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is working on improving security awareness for smartphones and other mobile computing platforms used by DoD personnel.

An M86 Software researcher says his team has seen a major malicious spam campaign that is using the Cutwail botnet to bombard Facebook users with a variety of infected messages.

A leading security researcher claims to have researched a money mule – people who allow their bank accounts to become staging posts for fraudulent money obtained in online scams – that clearly knew exactly what he was doing.