SECURITY

As the PlayStation Network recovers from back-to-back hacker attacks, Sony will face a lawsuit filed by three men alleging Sony was well aware of the inadequacy of its security system. According to a Reuters report, the litigation was filed earlier this week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The trio, Felix Cortorreal, Jacques Daoud Jr., and Jimmy Cortorreal, all of New York, said in court documents, Sony knew that its inadequate security systems placed it a...

Cyber hackers have breached an Electronic Arts Inc website and may have taken user information such as birth dates, phone numbers and mailing addresses, the company said on its website on Friday.

After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates.

NATO said Thursday one of its websites was the subject of a probable data breach, but it did not contain any classified data.

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The high-profile hacktivists LulzSec had their own website hacked by another hacker group. Since then, LulzSec did not show any response to TeaMp0iSoN, at least on Twitter.

Two Latvians have been charged in the United States for selling fake computer security software known as scareware and were arrested in Latvia, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Survey reveals more and more businesses are coming under security attacks.

Despite criticisms during his first term, the South Korean was unanimously voted in for a second time.

Mozilla has stopped supporting Firefox 4 with security updates, surprising users as it had not informed about the change following the release of Firefox 5 on Tuesday.

After targeting the U.K. the hacker collective LulzSec yesterday claimed responsibility for successful cyber attacks against two of the Brazilian Government's websites.

More than 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Dropbox security bug that allowed users to login to the system without using any password has lead to a serious debate on whether the data stored in Dropbox is secure even if the authentication was through a proper password. Dropbox uses a host key system, so your password is not stored anywhere on your system. The key is your authentication details. If the key is compromised, you can easily remove that particular host/key from your account and it will revoke access

Two notorious hacking groups – LulzSec and Anonymous – have teamed up for “Operation Anti-Security” (AntiSec), an act of declaring cyber war against corrupt governmental agencies and the UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) has become its first target .

As the news of the arrest of 19-year old mastermind behind the hacker group LulzSec spread, they tweeted: Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?

Web-based file hosting service Dropbox has been facing a glitch in its login system for the last few hours that is allowing anyone to sign into the account with any random password or by typing even any single letter.

Web 2.0 is on the path of liberation. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will roll out new top level domains (TLDs) to compete with the currently used .com, .net, .org. The frustrating unavailability of domain names is ending and an era of ideal domain for each and every business and individual is beginning with new extensions. According to Help Net Security, cybercriminals could also seek these new domains to create legitimate looking websites using well-known brand...

LulzSec and Anonymous have tied up and is up for anything, 'virtually' anything. They call it Operation Anti-Security. Until the hacker's union's demands are met, LulzSec and Anonymous wouldn't budge. And what they demand is a tad too complicated to achieve. Hackers United wrecking havoc across internet spaces is demanding complete internet freedom with no privacy infiltration from government agencies. If not they will steal and leak any classified government information, ...

Apparently the masses are spreading the word, in what looks like a people's movement against corruption. CBS8 reported a mysterious serial graffiti that appeared on the boardwalk near Mission Beach, San Diego. The crude stencil graffiti read #ANtiSec, The Anti-Sec Revolution and AntiSec! along with a LulzSec Mascot.

In the wake of the revelation that both the U.S. Senate and CIA's websites were hacked, the White House has called for stricter sentences for any hacker caught breaking into a government's private computer networks.

US companies will be forced to disclose details of basic level of protection for consumers' personal information and notify the government when data is stolen, according to new draft legislation from the Congress.