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A group of 26 U.S. senators, cutting across party lines, are seeking “public answers” on whether the National Security Agency collected in bulk other data such as credit card purchases and financial information in the U.S. besides phone records.

Tougher measures to ensure the security of personal information are needed, legal experts said, after police detained four people accused of illegally purchasing students’ family details and defrauding money from their parents.

In this video, Bruce Schneier talks about trust. We all trust millions of people, organizations, and systems every day — and we do it so easily that we barely notice. But in any system of trust, there is an alternative, parasitic, strategy that involves abusing that trust.

Cyber security spending for critical infrastructure totalled US$41.76 billion globally in 2012, according to an ABI Research report.

Hard work by the administration, the services and the leadership at U.S. Cyber Command is putting in place elements crucial to defending U.S. and allied interests in cyberspace, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy said in a recent interview.

The four-star general who headed the reported cyber-attack by American and Israeli hackers on an Iranian nuclear site is under a DoJ investigation over leaking the details of the operation to the press, reports NBC News.

The maintainers of Ruby have fixed a serious flaw in its SSL client that could have allowed an attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks by spoofing an SSL server.

The notorious RedHack collective has breached another major website of the Turkish government, the one of the Istanbul Special Provincial Administration (ioi.gov.tr).

Lord Leveson was yesterday called to appear before MPs – amid growing anger at his failure to reveal widespread phone-hacking by big business.

Providers and analysts claim confusion reigns supreme, but government bodies beg to differ