The Web site for Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, which works closely with the military and NASA on research projects, was hit with a cyber attack that officials discovered Sunday and which led them …

South Korea’s military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said.
The Defence Security Command said in a report to a security forum that every day the military …

Authorities in several countries have helped bust an international phone hacking ring that cracked into thousands of corporate phone networks in the U.S. and elsewhere in order to route calls through the networks at the …

For the first time, the Federal Trade Commission is shuttering an internet service provider it alleges, “recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of illegal, malicious and harmful electronic content” such as botnets …

Most (84%) of higher-education IT professionals queried say their networks are more secure today than five years ago but overall those who answered still score the security of their networks an average of 3.7 out …

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd has issued a security patch for the popular device, whose users include U.S. President Barack Obama, warning that it is vulnerable to attacks by hackers.
Research in Motion issued the …

More than a half million Virginians received the unsettling news that their personal and medical information may have been hacked.
The Virginia Department of Health Professions is contacting 530,000 people whose prescription records, including Social Security …

Turns out the profitability of cybercrime may have been greatly exaggerated. According to a new report by two researchers for Microsoft’s research organization, cybercrime doesn’t equal easy money after all, despite findings to the contrary.
In …

Wired is discussing the suddenly relevant legal question of whether or not a security auditor should be held liable if it claims a company’s data is secure, and then there’s a data leak. The specific …