A Dallas hospital guard was ordered to jail following his arrest on charges of breaking into computers, planting malicious software and planning a massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Fourth of July.

A disgruntled software developer has been charged with launching attacks against Rolling Stone and Radar Magazine.

After a prolonged beta period, Mozilla has officially released its new version of Firefox.

Most of the rise in cybercrime can be linked to data-stealing malware, and trojans are the fastest growing category.

The former cybersecurity chief at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now the head of ICANN, a primary internet governance organization.

A researcher at IBM has developed a way to analyze encrypted data without decoding it.

The PCI Security Standards Council is soliciting feedback on its data security guidelines.

Never mind optimizing search result rankings, malicious attackers now are trying to optimize their tweets.

A wave of fake email Twitter invitations carry a mass-mailing worm, Symantec researchers said Thursday. The invitations look like they've come from a Twitter account, except the URL that would ordinarily be part of the standard text is missing. What is included is an attachment named "Invitation Card.zip." Clicking it installs a mass-mailing worm that gathers email addresses from the compromised computer and spreads via removable drives. — CAM

In reaction to a letter from 37 respected names in the computer security field, Google is considering tighter security of its web applications.