A Chinese hacker gang whose malware targeted RSA in 2011 infiltrated more than 100 companies and organizations, and even probed a major teleconference developer to find new ways to spy on corporations.

Apple has restored key sections of its developer website, including the download center, more than a week after it took the portal offline.

Apple on Sunday admitted that its developer website, which has been offline since Thursday, had been hacked and sSome information may have been stolen.

Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11).

Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims.

Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, “As if Java updates weren’t confusing already.”

Google today said it had paid a researcher $40,000 for a partial exploit of Chrome OS at its Pwnium 3 hacking contest two weeks ago.

A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday.

Romanian security company BitDefender has traced the cyber-espionage malware “MiniDuke” back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered

Adobe today patched new vulnerabilities in Flash Player that hackers are now exploiting in attacks aimed at Firefox users, the company said.