The US Department of Justice said Tuesday it was looking into the unauthorized access of a website server in its statistics wing, after hacker group Anonymous claimed to have collected and released 1.7GB of data from it.
Newspaper publisher News International is using cloud-based solutions from Salesforce.com. CloudSense and Zuora to fulfil product orders, monitor customer preferences and process payments.
What impact would Greece's departure from the euro have on the technological infrastructure that runs our payment systems, and what can banks do to avoid a financial meltdown?
Crossrider, a cross-browser extension development framework, is being used to malware writers to build a click-fraud worm called LilyJade that spreads on Facebook, security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab warned.
The security industry’s Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) framework for reporting and sharing security vulnerabilities in a machine-readable format has been given a promised revamp to make it easier to use for third-party researchers.
The security industry’s Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) framework for reporting and sharing security vulnerabilities in a machine-readable format has been given a promised revamp to make it easier to use for third-party researchers.
Windows 8 will be released later this year, and the new Start screen and Metro-style apps will likely be the first changes you'll notice, but those aren't the only things that are new. Microsoft is also making some serious security enhancements to help keep your system safer and to improve Windows' ability to combat viruses and malware. It just may be the biggest improvement to Windows security yet.
Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) investigators will get quicker access to data from the mobile phones of suspects after announcing the controversial deployment of the Radio Tactics ACESO data extraction system.
The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14,000 from their Mac-based click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said today.
MI5 and GCHQ are among the top 10 employers that IT students would like to work for, although the likes of Google and Apple still lead in the work popularity stakes.
A hacker who claims to hate both Anonymous and notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that the bittorent website has been suffering for the last 24 hours.
Mobile malware stepped up an order of magnitude in volume and sophistication during 2011 and this trend has continued in the first quarter of 2012, according to F-Secure’s latest quarterly report.
Avira has issued a service pack for its antivirus software that crippled an unknown number of Windows machines, with one customer calling the gaffe "catastrophic" to his company.
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.
Research by mobile device management firm Zenprise found that Angry Birds was the most-blacklisted application among users enrolled in its Zencloud MDM service
Cloud key management firm Gazzang is offering Ubuntu users the huge convenience of being able to securely back up and recover encryption keys used to scramble files in the home directory.
Bitcoin exchange site Bitcoinica suspended its operations on Friday after hackers managed to steal 18,547 bitcoins - valued at about £56,000 (US$90,000) - from its online wallet. The user database probably was compromised as well, Bitcoinica's administrators said in an announcement posted on the site's home page.
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