Hacking news from FierceCIO

President Obama outlined his new cybersecurity plans and how they will impact the federal government last week, but he left the door open as to how the new rules would affect the private sector. Just... Read more...

The theft of a vendor number for the University of Utah's design and construction department led to a scam that resulted in the loss of almost a million dollars before it was uncovered. More than... Read more...

As we head into the holidays, everyone is rounding out the year with a series of lists. What caught my attention over at DarkReading--a site that focuses on security issues, was their round up of the... Read more...

The recession may be bad news for most of us, but it's great for the ever-present hacker. A new study by Gartner Inc. says companies are taking more risks and cutting back on their security software... Read more...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain made Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, otherwise known as "Joe the Plumber," famous during the October 15 debate with Democrat Barack Obama, and in subsequent... Read more...

A high school student in the state of New York has been slapped with three felony charges after accessing personnel records on a poorly configured computer without authorization. He was caught after... Read more...

The Identity Theft Resource Center of San Diego has found that data breaches are on the rise. So far this year, 449 U.S. businesses, government agencies and universities have reported a loss or theft... Read more...

Three journalists were given the boot from the Black Hat security conference this week after they stretched the tradition of victimizing attendees who use the conference's wireless network a tad too... Read more...

Exploit code for a much touted flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) has been released. This... Read more...

Kevin Mitnick, who served five years in federal prison for breaking into phone and software company networks, now is a computer security consultant for hire, helping companies protect themselves from... Read more...