A federal court in Houston has rejected an FBI request for a warrant to hack into the computer of a suspect in an attempted cyberheist.

Thousands of older systems, including those used to manage traffic lights, fuel pumps, point-of-sale terminals and building automation can be tampered with because they’re insecurely connected to the Internet.

The Schnucks supermarket chain struggled for two weeks to find the source of a breach that exposed credit and debit card information on as many as 2.4 million customers.

In what’s quickly turning out to be a replay of events from last year, the White House today signaled that it would not support the recently reintroduced Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its present form.

The Department of Homeland Security has a warning for organizations that post a lot of business and personal information on public web pages and social media sites: Don’t do it.

The U.S government and two other entities involved in investigations leading to the indictment of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz have asked a federal court in Boston to redact the names of people involved in the case from documents being soug…

Massive distributed denial-of-service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System servers.

Anti-spam service Spamhaus has been hit with what several security firms today described as the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever seen.

Anti-spam service Spamhaus has been hit with what several security firms today described as the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever seen.

A federal court in Missouri has rejected an escrow firm’s attempt to blame its bank for a $440,000 cyberheist in March 2010.