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Article | 27/06/2011 LulzSec Says Goodbye With New Data Dump

<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/231198/lulzsec_calls_it_quits_after_50_days_of_mayhem.html">LulzSec</a> , the hacker group that...

Article | 27/06/2011 They're back! Data breach notification bills resurface

After several large breaches -- including the <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1457/epsilon_hack_notification_letters">Epsilon</a>, <a href="http:/...

Article | 27/06/2011 Anonymous claims LulzSec members, steps up attacks

The decision by computer hacking group LulzSec on Saturday to fold operations may be helping another online group, Anonymous, which stepped up attacks...

Article | 25/06/2011 Hacker civil war heats up

In the midst of all the high-profile hacks rolling out almost daily, a hacker civil war is also under way. It's become almost as hard to keep up with ...

Article | 25/06/2011 PCI Council says mobile payment apps can meet security standard

The PCI Security Standards Council has released its long-awaited guidance on how mobile payment acceptance applications can meet PCI standards.

Article | 25/06/2011 Citi hackers made $2.7 million

Citigroup suffered about US$2.7 million in losses after hackers found a way to steal credit card numbers from its website and post fraudulent charges.

Article | 24/06/2011 Twitter scam claims to get you more followers

A scam that has been making its way around Twitter for some time has resurfaced recently and promises to increase a user's followers, but really gives...

Article | 22/06/2011 The good, bad & ugly of Dropbox authentication error

Online storage service Dropbox made an embarrassing error Monday, turning off password authentication for millions of users.

Article | 22/06/2011 Google builds developer tool to flag Web app vulnerabilities

Google has released an experimental extension for its Chrome browser that developers can use to scan their Web applications and flag code that could m...

Article | 20/06/2011 SCADA Systems: Achilles Heel of Critical Infrastructure

Our critical infrastructure is an attractive target for enemy nations, terrorist groups, or even run-of-the-mill cyber criminals, and many security ex...

Article | 20/06/2011 LulzSec E-mail Hack Proves We're Lousy at Picking Passwords

Whether you think LulzSec is doing us a favor for exposing our security weaknesses or think the hacker group has gone too far, a very old lesson can b...

Article | 21/06/2011 Facebook Facial Recognition: Why It's a Threat to Privacy

By the end of this year, the world's population is expected to hit 7 billion. That's a huge number, but it pales in comparison to the 60 billion to 10...

Article | 21/06/2011 Researchers: AWS users are leaving security holes

Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's cloud-computing services due to its customers either ignoring or forgetti...

Article | 17/06/2011 We owe LulzSec a thankyou

LulzSec has been making headlines on a virtually daily basis for a month or so now. The hacker group has compromised servers and exposed sensitive inf...

Article | 15/06/2011 Microsoft patches critical IE9, Windows bugs

Microsoft today patched 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office and other software, 15 of them labeled "critical" by the company...

Article | 15/06/2011 Cellcrypt releases voice encryption app for Android

The company Cellcrypt released an application on Tuesday for mobile phones running Android that encrypts voice calls, addressing increasing concern th...

Article | 14/06/2011 World Bank cut connection to IMF after "major" cyberattack

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has admitted to being the victim of a cyberattack so serious that its global partner the World Bank temporarily ...

Article | 14/06/2011 Russian bank puts lie detector in ATM machine

Customers of the Russian Sperbank might in future have to pay attention to how nervous they sound if they wish to withdraw money from the bank's ATM m...

Article | 14/06/2011 Privacy groups push for U.S. Facebook probe

The privacy flap over Facebook's new facial recognition service has gained some momentum.

Article | 7/06/2011 IT security regulations ‘totally out of date’

The legal framework in which businesses operate their IT and data security is "totally outdated" and dates "from the 20th Century, while attempting to...