Getting hacked on Twitter is fast becoming a rite of passage for big corporations, but Tuesday’s attack on the Associated Press could be a tipping point and shows that social networks must do more to keep their users safe, security experts said.

Getting hacked on Twitter is fast becoming a rite of passage for big corporations, but Tuesday’s attack on the Associated Press could be a tipping point and shows that social networks must do more to keep their users safe, security experts said.

Australia has charged a 24-year-old man who allegedly defaced a government website earlier this month and claims to be the leader of LulzSec, a rogue inactive hacking group.

Even though the majority of data breaches continue to be the result of financially motivated cybercriminal attacks, cyberespionage activities are also responsible for a significant number of data theft incidents, according to a report that will be rele…

Google must pay a $190,000 fine in Germany for gathering and storing emails, photos, passwords and chat protocols from unprotected Wi-Fi networks with Google Street View cars, Hamburg’s Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information said on Monday.

A global credit card fraud network was shut down on Thursday as the result of an international police operation called “Pandora-Storm” that saw the participation of 20 law enforcement agencies from Europe, America and Australia, Europol announced,

A proposal in Congress to strengthen the penalties in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a “giant leap in the wrong direction” for digital rights activists calling for changes in the law after the suicide of hacktivist Aaron Swartz earlier this year.

A new piece of custom malware sold on the underground Internet market is being used to siphon payment card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee.

Security researchers have uncovered yet another ongoing cyberespionage operation targeting political and human rights activists, government agencies, research organizations and industrial manufacturers primarily from Eastern European countries and form…

Security vendors analyzing the code used in the cyberattacks against South Korea are finding nasty components designed to wreck infected computers.