A swifter assessment process may soon await merchants and service providers trying to demonstrate compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards.

Google today announced email security, encryption and archiving services for enterprise users.

A federal judge has ordered a purveyor of weight-loss and human-growth hormone-related products to pay more than $2.5 million for violations of the FTC Act and the CAN-SPAM Act.

Malware authors exploited the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to spread malware. Attackers set up fake blogs and webpages, which claimed to have rare video of Bhutto's death.

Brian Cohen has been named president and chief executive officer of Steelbox Networks

More than three-quarters of large U.S. merchants, and nearly two-thirds of medium-sized retailers, are in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), according to Visa.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today approved eight mandatory cybersecurity standards that extend to all entities connected to the nation's power grid.

A vendor working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has uncovered vulnerabilities impacting 11 major open-source software projects, including the Perl and PHP programming and scripting languages used widely to develop web applications.

A Congressional committee has slammed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for giving a no-bid contract to a website developer that failed to implement cybersecurity procedures to protect the personal information of travelers.