“49 web sites of members of the US House of Representatives were hacked following the State of the Union address recently. The defacement contained a vulgar insult and a claim of credit for Red Eye …

“News that cybercriminals are seeking out user names and passwords for resale is nothing new — but according to researchers at the anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab (via Computerworld), stolen Twitter accounts are fetching a higher …

“Bank of America was investigating an outage on Friday that affected an unknown number of customers but had ruled out a cyberattack, a representative said.
‘Our online-banking service is available,’ spokeswoman Anne Pace said in a …

“One of the trickiest problems in cyber security is trying to figure who’s really behind an attack. Darpa, the Pentagon agency that created the Internet, is trying to fix that, with a new effort to …

“Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta has said it was the target of a hacker attack after its web site crashed on Tuesday.
‘Today, beginning from about 9-9:30 a.m. [6-6:30 GMT], the web site of Novaya Gazeta …

“At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of previously undisclosed cyberattacks that may have originated in China and that experts say highlight a new level of sophistication in the growing …

The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute’s annual study. The average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65 million in …

“Personal friends of employees at Google, Adobe and other companies were targeted by hackers in a string of recently disclosed cyberattacks, raising privacy concerns and pointing to a highly sophisticated operation, security experts said.
Cybersecurity experts …

“Mike Bailey, a senior security analyst with Foreground Security of Orlando, Florida, said he discovered the problem, which exploits a widely known vulnerability in Adobe Systems Inc’s Flash programing language.
Bailey said he informed Twitter of …

“Google has not been alone in dealing with computer hackers from China.
Chemical Abstracts Service said it began seeing a sharp increase in attempted hacks of customer accounts from China about a year ago, well before …