A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a spam-spewing botnet of hacked computers.
Robert McMillan | 22 Mar | Read more
Visitors to the London Stock Exchange's Web site were hit with malicious ads over the weekend, designed to pop up fake security messages on their computers.
Robert McMillan | 01 Mar | Read more
Half of U.S. government Web sites are vulnerable to commonplace DNS attacks because they haven't deployed a new authentication mechanism that was mandated in 2008, a new study shows.
Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 28 Jan | Read more
Users of the 4chan online message board managed to get access to the online student information system used by a New Jersey school district after the school's administrative password was posted to 4chan last week.
Robert McMillan | 25 Jan | Read more
Recent data breaches at two banks underscore what's becoming a gnarly problem for companies that handle sensitive information: When does a hacked PC become a data breach?
Robert McMillan | 13 Jan | Read more
The National Security Agency is building one of the largest and most expensive data centers as a place to gather and analyze intelligence data.
Tim Greene | 11 Jan | Read more
Bank of America has joined the growing list of financial and technology companies that have cut off services to WikiLeaks, a move that comes amid speculation that the whistleblower site is preparing to release information about the bank.
Marc Ferranti | 19 Dec | Read more
The attacks against MasterCard by WikiLeaks supporters that knocked the credit card company's Web site offline today may have caused more problems than previously thought.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 09 Dec | Read more
A survey of financial services professionals at 70 banks found more than half considered real-time man-in-the-middle attacks from banking Trojans such as ZeuS and Clampi on compromised customer computers to be the greatest threat to online banking today.
Ellen Messmer | 09 Dec | Read more
A loosely organized group of Internet hacktivists took down Visa's website Wednesday, after organizing a similar attack on MasterCard.
Robert McMillan | 09 Dec | Read more
Dell Wednesday announced its first endpoint encryption product, along with the possibility of factory installation on certain Dell PCs.
Ellen Messmer | 18 Nov | Read more
Smart card vendor Gemalto introduced a new credit card Wednesday that's capable of generating one-time-passwords (OTP) for electronic banking and payment transactions.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 11 Nov | Read more
Microsoft said its free malware cleaning tool had scrubbed the money-stealing Zeus bot from nearly 275,000 Windows computers in under a week.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Oct | Read more
A database security vendor says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins.
A sophisticated worm designed to steal industrial secrets and disrupt operations has infected at least 14 plants, according to Siemens.
Robert McMillan | 15 Sep | Read more