Breach

Leading security analysts say a major French bank could have prevented a $7 billion insider fraud with better password controls, and software that tracks transactions from workstations.

A Florida woman, fearing she was about to be fired from her job, was arrested this week for allegedly deleting seven year's worth of her employer's architectural data.

Security vendor SecureWorks says a mass attack launched against Apache servers running Linux, which has now infected 10,000 websites, can be thwarted by disabling dynamic loading in the server configuration.

Fortinet researchers have discovered a new socially engineered Symbian OS worm they say is actively spreading on mobile networks as users unwittingly send the malware to their unit's entire address book.

The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) interface is highly vulnerable to use by hackers seeking to modify home router settings -- such as choice of DNS server -- from an external location, researchers warned.

The personally identifiable information of about 650,000 customers of JCPenney and other retailers is at risk after a data tape went missing from storage vendor Iron Mountain.

China appears to have won the first battle in a global cyberwar, gaining access to key U.S. databases through aggressive, non-stop phishing assaults. The U.S. response must include monitoring of all email traffic to critical government and private-sector networks, experts say.

The Cold War may be over, but the global battle over information security is heating up, as U.S. intelligence experts struggle to fend off relentless cyber attacks from China and Russia.