The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups have standing in challenging the constitutionality of the US government’s warrantless wiretapping of overseas phone calls and emails.
22 May 2012
Blizzard Entertainment’s newly launched Diablo III video game was hacked within a few days of its launch, and servers in Europe were taken offline for four hours on Sunday.
22 May 2012
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has come out against the Democratically sponsored Cybersecurity Act, comparing it to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in terms of privacy concerns.
22 May 2012
A bomb threat halted construction of the National Security Agency's top-secret cybersecurity intelligence center being built at Camp Williams, Utah.
22 May 2012
GFI Software highlights the problems of users’ carelessness with their credentials: who needs hacking skills when log-on details are just handed over?
22 May 2012
New start-up SaaSID today launches a product at CloudForce London that seeks to solve a pressing and growing problem: the authentication of personal devices to the cloud.
22 May 2012
Every year our tax details are evaluated by HMRC. Every year, a lucky few get tax refunds; and every year, at that time, the scammers come out to take advantage.
22 May 2012
The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) has a credibility problem that needs to be addressed for the organization to have an impact on the anti-virus software testing communities, observed David Harley, ESET senior research fellow.
22 May 2012
The US Supreme Court has let stand a $675,000 file sharing verdict levied by a jury against Joel Tenenbaum for downloading songs and making them available on a peer-to-peer network while a student at Boston University.
21 May 2012
The University of Maine has admitted to a server breach that may have exposed personal information, including social security and credit card numbers, on around 3,825 individuals.
21 May 2012