06/07/2012 - The Web site eHarmony acknowledged yesterday that a small percentage of its users’ passwords may have been exposed in an online forum used by hackers.
06/07/2012 - Hackers are expected to increase LinkedIn phishing attacks and a web builder creates a site to find out if your password was among those hacked.
06/05/2012 - Four European parliament committees have voted against a major international treaty that aims to protect against online piracy and the trade of counterfeit goods.
05/29/2012 - A newly discovered malicious software program is one of the most comprehensive and sophisticated attack kits yet discovered, according to the software firm Kaspersky Lab.
05/29/2012 - The Symantec Honey Stick Project lost smartphones on purpose to see what people did when they found them. The finders searched personal and business data on the phones.
05/29/2012 - This Government Accountability Office report describes how some government agencies could improve the way they hire and retain cybersecurity professionals.
05/24/2012 - The Federal Trade Commission has hired privacy expert Paul Ohm as a senior policy advisor for consumer protection and competition issues affecting the Internet and mobile markets.
05/24/2012 - The federal government can improve its cybersecurity capabilities through more targeted hiring and training of a cybersecurity work force, but that’s easier said than done.
05/17/2012 - Increasingly popular next generation firewalls can be highly effective at thwarting network attacks and may eventually become more popular than standalone firewall devices, according to a new Forrester report.
05/09/2012 - A social networking site has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it misled users about how their personal information was being used.