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Motorola accidentally shipped 100 refurbished tablets with old customer data still intact. Here's what you can do to ensure your information isn't sold by mistake.

Economic Development Administration has disabled its website and email while attack is investigated.

NSA is piloting secure smartphones now and plans broader adoption of commercially available devices that can access classified networks.

Check out these telltale characteristics of the phony Facebook 'Friend,' courtesy of Barracuda Networks.

New tool uses interface based on Google Earth plus modeling and simulation to predict how car or truck bombs would impact the streets of lower Manhattan. Goals include safer buildings and better escape routes.

Researchers have cracked two common voice encryption protocols, enabling low-tech interceptions of satellite calls.

FBI confirms legitimacy of 16-minute call, posted by hacktivists, that discussed sentencing and future arrests of LulzSec and Anonymous participants.

SEC data breach disclosure report triggers admission from VeriSign that attackers might have accessed sensitive domain name system data. What could they do with it?

Microsoft attack ad draws quick retort from Google, as controversy over new privacy policies heats up.

No promises, but MegaRetrieval campaign tries to reunite legitimate Megaupload users with their data.

Some security experts call Counterclank apps malware, not adware. But Google says the apps comply with the company's terms of service.

Microsoft tries to gain from Google's privacy pain; new ad calls Google plan to unite user data across all services a privacy nightmare.

RIM 'London' BlackBerry 10 picture shows no keyboard; BlackBerry 7 platform wins security certification for U.S. and Canadian government employees.

Symantec says hotfix 'eliminates known vulnerabilities,' but hackers could use source code to exploit unknown holes. Some users will want to delete the app entirely.

Hackers will one day outstrip terrorists as top threat to U.S., FBI director tells a Senate committee. Attacks predicted to become more complex and frequent.

Google sends letter to congressional representatives to clarify pending privacy policy revisions.

As White House continues to push cloud computing, federal IT managers still worry about security and costs, Ponemon survey finds.

Hosting providers agree to hold data files for two weeks while cyberlocker company's lawyers negotiate with the U.S. government.