Sony didn't show up for last week's Capitol Hill hearing on its massive data breach, thought to have affected more than 100 million video gamers. But that didn't stop Representative Mary Bono Mack from laying into the company, along with Epsilon, a marketing company that experienced a similar breach just weeks before.
Robert McMillan | 14 May | Read more
Adobe has released an important update to its Flash Player software that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web.
Robert McMillan | 13 May | Read more
A programming bug on Facebook's website may have accidentally given advertisers and others access to a treasure trove of personal information, according to security researchers at Symantec.
Robert McMillan | 11 May | Read more
Scammers looking to flog cheap software have hacked Web pages on high-profile websites, including those belonging to NASA and Stanford University.
Robert McMillan | 10 May | Read more
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned computer users Tuesday that messages claiming to include photos and videos of Osama bin Laden's death actually contain a virus that could steal personal information.
Robert McMillan | 04 May | Read more
Netflix has fired a call center worker for stealing credit card numbers from customers of the online movie service.
Robert McMillan | 05 May | Read more
The widely publicized hack of Sony's computer networks is worse than previously thought, also affecting 24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment network accounts.
Robert McMillan | 03 May | Read more
The hacker who has received widespread grassroots support after being sued by Sony for posting code that can jailbreak Sony PlayStation consoles blamed the company's recent data breach on executive-level arrogance.
Robert McMillan | 29 Apr | Read more
Claiming revenge for an "illegitimate firing," someone has posted screenshots and other data, apparently showing that he was able to break a 200 megawat wind turbine system owned by NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Florida Power & Light.
Robert McMillan | 18 Apr | Read more
UberSocial has fixed a bug in its Twitter software for mobile phones that put some users' privacy at risk.
Robert McMillan | 02 Apr | Read more
JP Morgan Chase and the Kroger supermarket chain are warning customers that their names and e-mail addresses may have fallen into the wrong hands after someone broke into computer systems at e-mail marketing giant Epsilon.
Robert McMillan | 02 Apr | Read more
Twitter is warning users of the popular UberSocial Twitter-messaging software that direct messages they send may not be private.
Robert McMillan | 01 Apr | Read more
A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a spam-spewing botnet of hacked computers.
Robert McMillan | 22 Mar | Read more
For more than 24 hours this week, it was a question that very few security experts could answer: Who had knocked the world's worst spam botnet offline?
Robert McMillan | 18 Mar | Read more
An Internet Explorer flaw made public by a Google security researcher two months ago is now being used in online attacks.
Robert McMillan | 12 Mar | Read more