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With successful hacks on Burger King’s, The Onion’s and the Associated Press’ Twitter accounts, Twitter has added another layer of…

Hackers Ryan Cleary, 21; Ryan Ackroyd, 26; Mustafa Al-Bassam, 18, and Jake Davis, 20, who went under the online handles…

Fifty million of LivingSocial’s 70 million customers discovered their data may have been compromised when hackers attacked a company server.…

According to energyfiend.com, the most expensive Starbucks drink is the 3000mg caffeine-loaded Quadriginoctuple Frap at $47.30. If you think that’s…

Here’s the report everybody’s been waiting a full year for. Well, maybe not everybody. But if you’re charged with security…

They happen to achieve political objectives. They happen to extort ransom. They happen as a decoy while cyberthieves steal money…

Have bloggers using WordPress become more surly lately? We can’t answer that. But, if they did, they’d have good reason.…

Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked and renamed McDonalds. Jeep’s Twitter account was hacked and Jeep was made part of…

When Facebook launched its platform for developers in 2007, it also launched the careers of a whole raft of scammers…

If you’re not familiar with them, Bitcoins are virtual currency that isn’t controlled by any government or central bank. How…

Remember the good old days…like 36 or 48 months ago…when the tax man was the most despised person in America?…

They may have phrased it slightly differently, but Sun Tzu, Vince Lombardi, George Washington, Mao Zedong, Bobby Knight, Niccolo Machiavelli,…

Right off we have to point out that juxtaposed to some of the stuff you can learn online — how…

Ben Franklin famously observed, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Had Franklin…

In fighting fraud, there is great power in simplicity. This is the driving idea behind ThreatMetrix™ Cybercrime Defender Platform, which…