“The White House issued new cybersecurity marching orders to government agencies Wednesday, which top officials say will help redirect government efforts from wasteful paperwork compliance toward continuous monitoring and patching and more effective cybersecurity spending.
Many …

“The hacker is believed to have stolen the IDs of 1.5 million Facebook users. If accurate, that means one out of every 300 Facebook users may have been victimized. Kirllos is selling the information on …

“Computer networks essential to the Pentagon and military are attacked by individual hackers, criminal groups and nations hundreds of thousands of times every day, according to the officer nominated to lead a cyberwarfare command.
The officer, …

“Romanian police arrested 70 suspects on Tuesday who they claim were involved in eBay scams and other cybercrimes since 2006.
The suspects, believed to be members of three separate gangs, used phishing attacks to gain the …

“Initially discovered in February 2010, the mobile virus, ‘MMS Bomber,’ has been spreading quickly in China, primarily on Nokia and Samsung devices.
Installed as an application, the virus automatically sends MMS containing a malicious URL to …

“It may be hard to imagine a job posting for a program analyst that lists preserving the nation’s freedoms and securing the homeland as the position’s chief responsibilities.
But as cyber-security has climbed up the list …

“A misstep by McAfee security researchers apparently helped confuse the security research community about the hackers who targeted Google and many other major corporations in cyber attacks last year.
On Tuesday, McAfee disclosed that its initial …

“China’s foreign journalists association said Friday it had taken its website offline after it was targeted in repeated denial-of-service attacks.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said it did not know who was behind the …