White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt has announced his retirement from public service.......

According to a Microsoft executive, Anonymous could be co-opted by nation states and terrorist groups to use it for their own ends.......

Earlier this week, Utah State Chief Information Officer (CIO) Stephen Fletcher resigned his position over a data security breach that exposed the Social Security numbers (SSNs) and other personal information of 280,000 Medicaid patients.......

Law enforcement officers and privacy proponents testified at a US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security regarding a bill that would require law enforcement officers to obtain warrants before collecting geolocation data from cell phone carriers.......

The Pirate Bay is back online following a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that kept the site inaccessible for more than a day.......

A UK man will spend one year in prison for hacking another person's Facebook account.......

A recent survey of 108 global companies conducted by the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab and sponsored by RSA and Forbes found that those in the financial sector have the best cyber and information risk management practices, while companies in the energy and utility industries have the worst.......

Google has released Chrome 19, the newest stable version of its browser.......

Apple has released a tool that will remove the Flashback malware from infected machines running OS X 10.......

Debit cards that were compromised in a data security breach at Global Payments have reportedly been used to conduct fraudulent transactions.......

FBI agents returned a server seized from a New York co-location facility four days after the equipment was taken from the organization.......

A three-judge panel of the US Court of appeals for District of Columbia has denied a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) to unseal records pertaining to a cyber attack against Google users in China that occurred in 2010.......

The US government is to expand a cyber security sharing initiative to include up to 1,000 defense contractors.......

For two days in May the UK website for Amnesty International was breached and used by the attackers to infect unsuspecting visitors to the site with the Ghost RAT Trojan.......

Adobe has come under fire for initially suggesting that customers pay to upgrade their software to obtain patches against security vulnerabilities.......

A 31 year old US man from Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty to his part in a phishing ring responsible for defrauding people of over US $1.......

The personal details of over 700,000 people involved in California's In-Home Supportive Services are reported to have gone missing in the mail.......

A new top level domain (TLD) is being proposed to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a secure alternative to existing domain name spaces.......

An investigation within the UK conducted by the Channel 4 TV station's Dispatches program alleges that private investigators are paying for access to personal details of individuals held in government databases.......