Breach

Viewers of four TV stations, in Michigan and Montana, had their Monday evenings interrupted by an Emergency Alert System broadcast warning of a zombie invasion. It turned out to be a hacking hoax.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) looks to step up its security efforts by spending $20 million on more advanced cyber security tools.

The days of refusing to look for possible IT and security threats with the potential to result in the loss of customer data are over.

The FBI is looking into hacks involving email accounts with which President George H. W. Bush corresponded.

The whitelisting company says it was breached because it failed to install its own software on a number of its computers, giving saboteurs access to a code-signing certificate.

On Sunday, Anonymous said it hacked the Fed, before exposing the data of 4,000 bankers. Now, it appears the claims are true.

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), a department of the Government of Canada, was reeling last month after the personal data of 583,000 Canadians was lost on a portable hard drive.