A federal magistrate in New York has ruled that government investigators must obtain a warrant before using cell phone information to track a suspect's location.......

A new policy introduced by the Connecticut state insurance department requires all insurance companies conducting business in Connecticut to report data breaches to state authorities within five calendar days.......

Researchers have detected a variant of the TDL3 rootkit that is capable of infecting 64-bit Windows installations.......

The European Commission (EC) has put the brakes on a plan to share information about European Union citizens with Israel in light of issues raised by the Irish government.......

India is now asking not only for Blackberry parent company Research in Motion (RIM) to put a server in the country so it can monitor Blackberry communications, but has now asked Google and Skype to provide servers in India as well.......

In this editorial, Brian Krebs responds to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) request for help in creating a cyber security roadmap.......

As of September 1, people purchasing cell phones or SIM cards in China will need to provide identification, according to a government order.......

Heartland Payment Systems will pay Discover US $5 million to settle claims related to the data breach that exposed details of millions of payment cards.......

Microsoft has released a tool to help users protect their computers from attacks that exploit a flaw in the way certain applications load dynamic link library (DLL) files.......

Police in Russia have arrested 10 people in connection with a ransomware scheme that allegedly brought in US $16 million.......

The Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa and a University of Virginia satellite campus are two of the latest victims of automated clearinghouse (ACH) fraud.......

SANS will bring you the best in network security training, certification, and up-to-the-minute research on the most important topics in the industry today.

Indian authorities have postponed a planned ban on BlackBerry services for 60 days while they study and test a proposal from Blackberry parent company Research in Motion (RIM) to allow security agencies more access to certain Blackberry communications.......

Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin has been charged with wire fraud and access device fraud for his alleged involvement with an attack on RBS WorldPay.......

A storage area network (SAN) memory card failure at the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) left at least two dozen agencies without the ability to conduct business.......

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking proposals for technologies to help detect insider threats quickly.......

Hari Prasad, the Indian researcher who was arrested for allegedly stealing an electronic voting machine, has been released on bail.......

Eight hosting providers that had been supporting command and control servers for the Pushdo botnet have cooperated with efforts to take down the machines.......

The Zeroll worm spreads through various instant messaging (IM) clients, tailoring the language of the accompanying message to the country in which the computer appears to be to increase its chances of spreading.......

An experiment involving the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) went awry last week, disrupting one to two percent of Internet traffic for about half an hour on Friday, August 27 at 9:00 am Greenwich Mean Time.......