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One of the most upsetting things about the recent revelations about the NSA’s shenanigans is that it has apparently devoted US$250M to suborning international standards.

A massive case of organized tax and bank fraud culminated with the unsealing of four federal grand jury indictments accusing 55 people of participating in one or more illicit schemes

Experian CreditExpert’s survey of 2,033 users found that while 73% claimed to be tech literate, many were failing to take precautions to protect their smartphones and tablets.

Bug bounties from Google and Facebook regularly clear thousands of dollars for a single, high-profile bug. Yahoo finally has joined the game, also for four figures — but with a different decimal place.

Here we go again! Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 7.0.2 just to fix some Lockscreen bugs in iOS 7 and but a researcher has found a new Lockscreen bug in new iOS 7.0.2.

Web applications are one of the most targeted systems as they are directly exposed to internet. There is no web server without serious vulnerabilities

Anonymous hacktivists have hacked into official website of Jordan’s Prime ministry in a protest against raising taxes and prices. The website was defaced with a message in Arabic to Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur.

Open source is definitely hot in 2013, and it looks like it will grow even faster in 2014. As more companies start to incorporate open-source technologies into their business operations, more job opportunities should open up as well.

The same miscreants responsible for breaking into the networks of America’s top consumer and business data brokers appear to have also infiltrated and stolen huge amounts of data from the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)

The cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by security researchers from Symantec.