A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the disabling of a website that discloses confidential information, a precedent-setting ruling that may raise a legal challenge to the growing online black market in purloined data while testing First Amendment rights.
The website of Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences apparently was hacked on Monday, with some of its database files made available on a peer-to-peer file sharing network by someone who said they wanted to "demonstrate" the lack of security on the university's server.
Despite a nationwide decline, identity theft is still a major concern of consumers because criminals have become more creative in how they steal personal information, according to a report released Monday by Javelin Strategy and Research.
After a brief hiatus, new variants have appeared in the wild of Trojan.Mebroot, a rogue rootkit discovered in December attacking the Windows Master Boot Record (MBR), Symantec has warned.
Spammers have developed bots that are capable of signing up and creating random accounts on Microsoft's Windows Live Mail service, according to security researchers at Websense.
WordPress, the popular blogging platform used by many businesses, has pushed out an update to remedy a low-risk vulnerability that permits hackers to edit the posts of other users.
