In 2014, McAfee Labs expects that Ransomware will proliferate on mobile devices, attacks using advanced evasion techniques will come of age, and social platforms will be used more aggressively to target the finances and personal information of consumers, and the intellectual property and trade secrets of business leaders.

While a hot topic in past years has been the use of the internet to help with employee selection through social media background checks, it appears that this trend is fading fast.

Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others.

A new study from PayPal finds that a majority of Americans are comfortable with the idea of using their biometric information instead of the passwords that are currently the norm.

The hacking group responsible for the leak calls it a wake-up call, not a threat against Yahoo. 

A new study shows that 55-year-olds pick passwords that are twice as secure as 25-year-olds' passwords.

A study from an international online security firm has discovered that the most popular computer password for business men and women continues to be “Password” or some variation thereof.