Social networks like Twitter and Facebook are among the thousands of sites monitored for suspicious activity by the Department of Homeland Security, and the government…
Read MoreNeal O'Farrell, executive director of the nonprofit Identity Theft Council, spoke about the seriousness of mobile security as part of San Francisco Small Business Week,…
Read MoreHackers associated with well known hacker-activist group "Anonymous Operations" have released a massive cache of data they say was obtained when they hacked a website…
Read MoreSecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has begun to independently examine Apple's Mac OS X platform and found that it's highly vulnerable to malware. "As Mac OS X…
Read MoreNatural gas pipeline operators in the United States have reportedly been the target of sophisticated phishing attacks since last year, and the Department of Homeland…
Read MoreMicrosoft researchers recently discovered a piece of Mac OS X malware that exploits a three-year-old flaw in old versions of Office for Mac. The threat uses…
Read MoreHacked websites are frequently used to infect PCs with malware, however the team at Lookout Mobile Security has discovered that hacked websites are specifically targeting…
Read MoreSecurity firm Sophos on Tuesday indicated that a surprisingly high level of malware has been found on Mac computers — the firm's research revealed that…
Read MoreThe "Flashback" virus discovered to have infected more than 600,000 Mac computers earlier this month originated on a series of Wordpress blogs, security experts have…
Read MoreApple responded fairly quickly to news that more than 600,000 Mac computers were infected with a trojan virus called "Flashback." One week after the massive…
Read MoreNicholas Merrill, formerly the head of a New York-based Internet Service Provider that fought the FBI and DOJ in court over the constitutionality of the…
Read MoreThe security of the Android mobile platform has always been a topic of debate. Due to Google's open ecosystem and less invasive app policing policies,…
Read MoreNotorious hacker group "Anonymous" on Thursday claimed responsibility for attacks on several government Web sites in China. The group has launched various Internet attacks on the…
Read MoreA report emerged last week from a security researcher claiming Microsoft's Xbox lacked important security features that might protect owners who sell used consoles from…
Read MoreLookout Mobile Security on Tuesday published a report stating that a known malicious Android program has been updated with the ability to harm a device…
Read MoreThe idea that Macs don't get viruses is now officially a thing of the past. Of course Mac malware has been around for years, but…
Read MoreFollowing a massive security breach, Visa has dropped Global Payments from its registry of providers that meet data security standards, The Associated Press reported on…
Read MoreHackers stole credit card numbers belonging to as many as 1.5 million MasterCard and Visa customers, Global Payments, Inc. confirmed on Sunday. The international credit…
Read MoreAndroid users who are looking to sell their old devices should be wary of the possible consequences. McAfee identity theft researcher Robert Siciliano warned that…
Read MoreUsing nothing more than a few common tools, hackers can reportedly recover credit card numbers and other personal information from used Xbox 360 consoles even…
Read MoreNotorious hacker group Anonymous has previously stated its intentions to shutdown the Internet on Saturday, March 31st, as a form of protest. "To protest SOPA,…
Read MoreAs a standard security measure, Apple's iPhone can be set to require a four-digit passcode whenever the phone's screen is powered on in order to…
Read MoreResearchers from North Carolina State University have found that mobile applications that integrate advertisements pose privacy and a security risks. The team conducted a study…
Read MoreHacker group "Anonymous Operations" has confirmed that the custom Linux-based operating system released under its name earlier this week is not a platform it developed.…
Read MoreHackers associated with the group "Anonymous" have published Symantec's Norton AntiVirus source code on The Pirate Bay. The source code was stolen in 2006 and…
Read MoreRussian university student Sergey Glazunov was able to hack into a secure Windows 7 machine using a remote code execution exploit in Google's Chrome web…
Read MoreThe United States Transportation Security Administration recently invested $1 billion in body scanner technology it claimed would make air travel safer, but the scanners have come…
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