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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned overseas travelersto be careful when using hotel WiFi networks ...

For months, the nation's natural gas pipeline industry has been under persistent cyberattack from unknown parties, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed this week ...

Targeted attacks on organizations and Web-born infections like the recent Flashback outbreak on Macintosh computers will continue to poison the security landscape in 2012, according to John Harrison, Symantec group product manager for endpoint threat protection and security technology and response ...

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of IT pros believe their organizations will be the target of a cyberattack in the next six months, and three out of five (61 percent) say the attack will come from hactivists ...

Last week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) let Google off with a tap on the wrist for hindering the commission's efforts to investigate allegations that Google was slurping information from WiFi networks with its fleet of mapping vehicles. [*Correction - April 23, 2012] ...

A new all-in-one home entertainment center announced Tuesday by Ikea may give some Baby Boomers a sense of deja vu ...

A week after the Flashback Trojan began running rampant on Macintosh computers, the malware appears to be in remission ...

A new version of Google's personal computer operating system, Chrome OS, was released for developers Tuesday. It adds design elements of more conventional offerings like Windows and OS X ...

In what could be the largest mass infection of Mac computers to date, the Flashback Trojan was estimated to have reached some 700,000 Macs by the end of last week ...

Two zombie networks infamous for stealing banking information and spewing spam were hit with a right-left combination last week by botnet fighters ...

Microsoft continued to expand its television offerings for members of its Xbox Live Gold service Monday by adding HBO Go, Major League Baseball video and Comcast's on-demand video service ...

Iran apparently has developed an antivirus program to neutralize the notorious Stuxnet virus that put a kink in the country's nuclear development program in June 2010 ...

Security experts have been debating for years the merits of whitelists versus blacklists in securing an enterprise, and last week the debate continued to rage with the release of some test results from the Tolly Group ...

Nearly 80 percent of organizations have experienced a data breach in the last two years due to employee negligence or maliciousness ...

Google tore down the silos around its app, music, movie and ebook stores Tuesday and melded them into a single outlet called "Google Play." ...

Before your company finds itself embroiled in a lawsuit over a data breach that spills personal information about your customers all over the Internet, you might want to take a look at some recent research by Carnegie Mellon and Temple Universities ...

A camera that allows photographers to control the focus in a picture after it's shot is set to start shipping on Friday ...

Google on Tuesday rebuffed a request by a European Union privacy body to delay implementation of changes in the search giant's privacy policies set to take effect on March 1 ...

Internet privacy appeared on the big stage last week when the Obama administration unveiled its plans on the subject, which included a bill of rights for consumer privacy ...

Google's privacy practices came under fire again last week for undermining the privacy practices of someone else. Namely, Apple ...