The deadly twisters that ripped through Kansas this week and the historic floods sweeping across the Upper Midwest will soon give rise to donation scams and malicious attacks, the SANS Storm Center warned on Friday.

Three months after an unencrypted backup tape goes missing, 4.5 million Bank of New York Mellon customers are notified their identities may be at risk.

An easy-to-fix -- but often overlooked -- problem most likely took the National Security Agency's website and its mail services down for six or seven hours on Thursday.

The National Security Agency (NSA) on Thursday announced that 10 new colleges have been designated National Centers of Academic Excellence in information assurance.

IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivized to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas.

Mapping the tragedy of the Hannaford breach in a post-mortem sense should be just as important to the grocery chain as the upgrade of the system.

As older generations of non-networked health care machines get replaced with 'smarter' network-integrated versions, the proliferation of embedded operating systems will grow.

Before embarking on a role management project, take time to consider your business objectives and project scope, says Jackie Gilbert, founder and VP of marketing, SailPoint.

When does seemingly harmless recreational surfing turn into something a lot more dangerous?

An underground economy has emerged in which cybercrooks are leveraging freely available tools, sophisticated methods and a chain of specialization that resembles a real corporation to pull off massive digital heists, according to an RSA Conference panel on Wednesday that examined the modern online criminal ecosystem.