data theft

Bit9, a security firm that provides software reputation, application control and whitelisting services to companies in the financial, technology, government and other sectors, …

More than 11.6 million adults were victims of identity theft in 2011, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. Child identity theft is also a significant problem, which …

A hacker by the online handle “Guccifer” has apparently managed to compromise email accounts belonging to the Bush family and some of their close friends, from …

The European Commission has today announced the launch of new proposals that include a requirement for EU member states to appoint an independent CERT and pivotally calls for …

U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed the breach of one of its internal websites by the hands of Anonymous hackers, but denied that the file containing personal information of over …

Notifications sent out to employees and contractors of the U.S. Department of Energy have confirmed that it and its networks have been the latest victim of …

Twitter has reset the passwords and revoked session tokens of some 250,000 Twitter users following a successful breach of a database containing user data. The compromise has …

Despite Windows 8 sales being not as good as Microsoft hoped, there is considerable interest in the new OS version. Still, not everybody wants to pay to try it out, and …

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Sony £250,000 for failing to adequately protect UK gamers’ personal and possibly even financial information …

Microsoft has announced on Friday that this month’s Patch Tuesday will include seven advisories, but unfortunately there will be no patch for the recently detected IE …

36-year-old Florida resident Christopher Chaney has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and to pay $66,000 restitution for having hacked the email accounts of Scarlett …

ExploitHub.com, the well-known online marketplace where one can buy exploit code for disclosed vulnerabilities, has confirmed that its web application server was compromised, …