A new from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that a majority of the typical computer users experienced security fatigue that often leads users to risky computing behavior at work and in their personal lives.

Payment card information stolen from a recent breach at Target stores has already begun appearing for sale on underweb marketplaces for between $20 and $100 per card.

In a special report to the Security magazine Blog, IBM has unveiled the eighth annual IBM 5 in 5, a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

One thing is clear, successful help desks need to be highly focused on customer service, yet they can present a security risk for the same reason they are in business, helping a user, says Barb Filkins, SANS analyst and author of a report based on a recent survey. The only real way to solve the problem is to build security into the business of help desk.

Electronic data breaches put the personal information of 2.5 million Californians at risk in 2012, according to a report released days ago by Attorney General Kamala Harris.

According to the latest stats from SophosLabs, the USA is back on top as the leading spam relaying country.

A Californian software company which sued the Chinese government for pirating its products was targeted by hackers from that country for the three years of the resulting legal proceedings.