Be careful when you select a bestseller to purchase on Amazon, where knock-offs are prevalent -- copycats that come with Amazon's stamp of approval. Perhaps it should be called Spamazon. Until recently, if you had typed "Steve Jobs Isaac" into the online retailer's search box, the first choice that popped up wasn't the best selling book by Walter Isaacson, but...

It is with deep regret and sadness that we say goodbye to Mr. Harold F. Tipton, CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, one of the CISSP certification founders and a key architect and long-time keeper of the (ISC)² CBK, who passed away on Friday, March 16, 2012.   His career encompassed 35 years of passionate, selfless dedication to the information security profession and the community.   Hal has had...

Hacktivist group Anonymous has turned its sights on China, reportedly defacing hundreds of Chinese websites, including a handful of local Chinese government websites over the past few days.

As the Obama administration provides incentives for meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs), efforts by the health care industry to secure patient data, or protected health information (PHI), have lagged behind, according to a new report by the PHI Project, an initiative of 100 health care leaders, including providers and insurance companies, as well as legal and security experts.

A security loophole on Apple's iOS platform that gives applications access to a user's photo library without explicit permission has been found to exist on Google's Android platform as well.

The Obama Administration today unveiled a “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” as part of a comprehensive blueprint to improve consumers’ privacy protections and ensure that the Internet remains an engine for innovation and economic growth.

Google Wallet users might be wise to start getting a little nervous. Yesterday, researchers outlined a complicated way to crack the Google Wallet PIN used to make purchases with the smartphone-based payment system. Now there's a new hack that could let a stranger gain access to the funds of Wallet users.

Anonymous has so far plied its trade in "hactivist" exploits. But according to the director of the National Security Agency, it might soon turn its focus to U.S. infrastructure.