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They've sided with a sheriff in the US state of Texas in a dispute over a teacher picking thrown-away school furniture out of the trash, have leaked 23 documents stolen from the judge's computer, have used the judge's credit card to order what Softpedia reports is a total of 18 sex toys, and have shown prodigious talent at making images out of keyboard characters that will forever change the way you view "x", "@" and...

A new survey of IT decision makers found that nearly half believe their employees would sell company data for the right price.

Dell is going to resell cloud tech from enterprise rivals as part of the company's ragged retreat from the capital-intensive public cloud market.

Word that mobile malware is rather pervasive has been making the rounds for months, but a new report has found that a shocking 100% of the Top 100 paid Android apps and 56% of the Top 100 paid Apple iOS apps have been hacked. Averaged together, users have a 78% chance of running into an app that has been compromised at some point.

The man offered to sell an undercover FBI agent entry to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory supercomputers

A Las Vegas court convicted a cybercriminal under RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act) law last week, in what may well turn out to be a landmark case.

It took three days, but Yahoo Mail is back in working order for all those who have been affected by the prolonged downtime. However, to the dismay of many of these users, many of the emails that they have received during these days seem to have been lost.

MX Lab the security company warns of cyber-criminals who are distributing malware through an e-mail campaign, which apparently targets organizations along with their employees. The malware-laden electronic mails bear the subject line "Important update. Please read" as the messages tell recipients about one deliberate e-mail service outage. The e-mails state that one planned outage had been carried out for the Mail Services at 11:30:14 +0300 on December 2, 2013. Presently, there are a few problems...

It took three days, but Yahoo Mail is back in working order for all those who have been affected by the prolonged downtime. However, to the dismay of many of these users, many of the emails that they have received during these days seem to have been lost. Yahoo says, however, that it is currently working on bringing all accounts up to date, together with the emails between 11/25 and 9/12 that have disappeared from the Inbox....

The days of sitting in your driveway to listen to the end of your favorite song or compelling news broadcast may be over soon. Ditto on worrying about where you put your house keys. A newly formed industry consortium, the AllSeen Alliance, wants to advance the adoption of the “Internet of things” through an open source framework. The Internet of things is based on the idea that devices and objects can connect to each other...