Network administrators in San Francisco could not access the city's new wide area network because a disgruntled engineer refused to divulge his exclusive credentials.

Google and eBay have joined forces to protect users from spam and malicious emails by leveraging an authentication technology called DomainKeys.

In its Patch Tuesday update, Microsoft addressed nine vulnerabilities by releasing four security updates, none of which were deemed critical.

Jason Michael Milmont, a significant malware developer, admitted guilt in federal court for fraudulently accessing protected computers. The announcement came from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Mongomery Ward, an old-line merchant now operating as an internet retailer, suffered a breach of some 51,000 customer credit card numbers, and failed to report it to customers.

A new law in Congress would require every U.S. citizen to have electronic health records by 2014. It would also set up privacy rules for those records, requiring information keepers to notify patients of security breaches.

A unique breach of bank information has hit one of the world's largest banks.

Two crimeservers containing 500 megabytes of stolen data have been discovered in Argentina and Malaysia. The data was likely being made available online to the highest bidder.

A new report from Verizon Business Security Solutions shows that there is an escalating worldwide black market for stolen data.

The U.S. Small Business Administration could soon get a boost in helping small to mid-sized enterprises cope with information security concerns.