The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received a record number of complaints from users infected with ransomware in 2015.

Mobile fraud is a challenge for merchants, and will only intensify, according to the 2016 LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud Study.
 

Technology professionals see many steps that could be taken to improve their company’s security.
 

When students and staff at the Coast Guard Academy needed their laptops and mobile phones repaired, they called Larry Mathews. For over a decade, Mathews owned the local computer repair shop. Then he pleaded guilty to computer intrusion.

While employee-related security risks are the number-one concern for security professionals, organizations are not taking adequate steps to prevent negligent employee behavior.
 

If you think of hacking like a business, you will be better prepared to disrupt it, says a new Hewlett Packard report.

The government will start scanning Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media accounts of federal employees and contractors applying and re-applying for security clearances.

A survey of today's consumers found that 76 percent of respondents would likely take their business elsewhere due to negligent data handling practices.