After earlier reports claimed all the data on Megaupload would be deleted this week, it appears users may be able to reclaim their legitimate data.

Pwn2Own hacking contest has been modified to drop mobile devices and to make it a fairer competition than the previous winner-takes-all model.

Download apps only from trusted sources and official application stores, but also scrutinize the developer name to verify the app's legitimacy.

McAfee addressed hacktivism in their 2012 security predictions.

Several Stratfor subscribers have received emails purporting to be from Stratfor but were clearly from Anonymous. Stratfor has issued a warning, but in this day of paranoia, there are doubts over the warning's legitimacy.

Hackers claiming to have Symantec's Norton Antivirus source code are threatening to publish it, but security researchers and Symantec don't seem all that concerned.

Scammers are tricking users who hate Facebook's Timeline into clicking on likejacking and other malicious scams.

More credit card numbers, email addresses and usernames and passwords were exposed in a hack on specialforces.com

More credit card numbers, email addresses and usernames and passwords were exposed in a hack on specialforces.com

The New York Times called the message sent to almost 9 million Internet users about their subscription spam. It was definitely unwanted, but that was all the paper got right.

A month after researchers uncovered a flaw that could set HP printers on fire, HP said it has yet to see any reports of such attacks. The PC giant fixed the issue anyway.

After outraging the Internet by publicly declaring its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act, GoDaddy has backed down in face of customer boycotts and said "we can clearly do better.

After two days of debate, the controversial Stop Online Privacy Act remains more or less intact, as the Judiciary committee debated and rejected various amendments proposed by SOPA opponents to weaken the controversial elements of the bill.

After two days of debate, the controversial Stop Online Privacy Act remains more or less intact, as the Judiciary committee debated and rejected various amendments proposed by SOPA opponents to weaken the controversial elements of the bill.

Following a settlement, FTC will reimburse victims of fake antivirus scams

Following a settlement, FTC will reimburse victims of fake antivirus scams

In the "How Cool is This?" files, the Federal Trade Commission has decided to send reimbursement checks to more than 300,000 people who have been victims of a rogue antivirus scam. The checks are the result of a settlement between...

As users become increasingly worried about the network monitoring tool from Carrier IQ that appear to have been installed on millions of phones worldwide, vendors are rolling out detection tools. Alas, they do not remove the software.

By David Hunter Recent high-profile data breaches shine a spotlight on the issues of trust, risk and security in the cloud. Yet, amid all the hand-wringing about perceived cloud computing security shortcomings, a deeper look yields a great irony: a...

Instead of looking up accounts on Pwnedlist.com or ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com, users should just go ahead and change passwords, security researchers say.