Today, federal officials announced new charges against the GameOver Zeus botnet, together with coordinated seizures that appear to have stopped…
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China is calling on banks to stop using IBM servers and replace them with local-made machines amid fears that the…
A major security flaw affecting several versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser was discovered over the weekend, and the…
Dozens of pages of previously unreleased documents pertaining to the prosecution of hacktivist Jeremy Hammond were leaked to the web…
The 8 million Americans who have signed up to President Barack Obama’s health insurance website, HealthCare.gov, have been advised to…
The critical “Heartbleed” bug reported earlier this week to have affected the security of most of the internet was discovered…
by Dan Goodin For a more detailed analysis of this catastrophic bug, see this update, which went live about 18…
A computer security instructor says he’s discovered that hackers have been able to infiltrate standard security cameras and then use…
Come April, hundreds of thousands of computers used by the US government could become susceptible to hackers and cyberattacks, largely…
By Michael Riley Target was striving to be different. Company officials say its information security staff now numbers more than…
By Alex Hern Hackers took over the Reddit account and personal blog of Mark Karpeles, the chief executive of shuttered…
British intelligence has its own hacker subdivision that uses questionable practices for hunting down enemies of the state, reveals a…
Government agencies in the United States are often failing to implement even the most basic deterrents that would boost their…
Responding to inquiries about a possible data breach involving customer credit and debit card information, upscale retailer Neiman Marcus acknowledged…
US military satellites could be disabled or destroyed in the event of a war in space, an American general has…
Syrian computer hacker conglomerate, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), has kicked off the New Year with a number of cyber-attacks,…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a major gathering of computer experts Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany,…
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden have uncovered a secret NSA hacking unit which delivered the US some of its most…