CYBERCRIME

Critical infrastructure companies in industries such as energy, water and gas are not smartening up to the increasing number of cyber attacks.

An Iranian military commander has accused German engineering company Siemens of helping the United States and Israel launch a cyber attack on its nuclear facilities, Kayhan daily reported on Sunday.

A computer hacker was sentenced to 24 months behind bars on Friday for launching a virus that infected approximately 100,000 computers worldwide and directed them to attack media outlets that carried stories about him, federal prosecutors said.

President Barack Obama continues pushing cyber security with the introduction of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).

U.S. authorities say they have shut down a computer crime ring that ran an international fraud scheme and likely infected more than 2 million computers worldwide in the past decade.

The hacktivist group Anonymous is planning a set of sit-ins at Sony stores on April 16, in response to the company's legal actions against hacker George Hotz.

The hacker collective Anonymous seems to have changed tacks on its effort to pay back Sony, emphasizing that its members are on the side of consumers and gamers.

A former Gucci network engineer is being indicted for costing the company $200,000 through hacking into its servers.

The hacker collective Anonymous has made good on its threat to attack Sony, having launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on Wednesday afternoon.

While the attacks against Sony by the hacktivist group Anonymous don't seem to have materialized, a Facebook page entitled Operation SONY has been set up, pointing to some kind of action on April 16.

According to a new report from Symantec cyber criminals aimed at big business with targeted attacks.

Targeted attacks, including attacks on leading mobile platforms, are set to rise further in future, security software maker Symantec said on Tuesday. Targeted cyber attacks are more complex and challenging but the returns are also higher, prompting cyber criminal to launch more of this kind in future, a security strategist at Symantec told Reuters.

Targeted cyber attacks will pose a growing threat to companies around the world this year after the Stuxnet worm hit Iran's nuclear program in 2010, security software maker Symantec Corp said on Tuesday.

More U.S. companies, including Target Corp and Marriott International, came forward on Monday to tell their customers that their names and email addresses had been exposed in a massive online data breach.

More U.S. companies, including Target Corp and Marriott International, came forward on Monday to tell their customers that their names and email addresses had been exposed in a massive online data breach.

A data breach involving online marketer Epsilon, whose clients are a Who's Who of major banks and retailers, was only the latest in a string of hacking attacks aimed at getting email records for more thefts, security experts warned on Monday.

Lizamoon is the name of an Internet-based scareware attack which plays on fears of computer viruses and trust in web security software. Its ultimate aim is to get a user provide credit card information.

More than one million website pages have been hit by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that redirect users to a fraudulent software sales operation.

More than one million website addresses have been compromised by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that link to a fraudulent software sales operation.

A fake app for the Android OS not only steals user's data, it humiliates them in the process.

A report from the Office of the Inspector General has found NASA is vulnerable to cyber attacks.