IBM was ranked the most trusted company for privacy among IT companies, fending off the likes of HP and eBay for the coveted top spot. But Facebook wasn't as fortunate.

The bank came clean this week, admitting that data stolen by a former IT specialist exposed a lot more clients to possible identity theft than it previously suspected.

More than 35,000 Arkansas National Guard soldiers are learning that their names, social security numbers and other personal data are at risk after an external hard drive vanished.

Panda Security discovered Confiker, Mariposa, and Lineage password stealing malware samples installed on a recently purchased Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone.

For the second time in two years, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts says hackers accessed its computer systems, stealing sensitive information, including customer payment card data.

Government security experts are warning consumers that using Energizer's DUO USB battery charger could leave their Windows PCs open to attack from hackers.

Hackers and e-crooks have moved beyond the low-hanging fruit of online banks and eBay as primary targets for their elaborate phishing schemes, according to a new report.

Internet security experts say massive botnet attack impacted computers in more than 190 countries and more than half of the world's 1,000 largest companies.

ThreatMetrix and CyberSource team up to build new, advanced identity protection applications to combat identity theft and further secure online transactions.

IBM's X-Force security report finds that hackers have mastered the art of attacking Web browsers and document readers, even though application security has improved.

Chipmaker says it, too, was hit by a 'sophisticated' cyber attack in January, right around the same time that Google, Adobe, and a couple dozen other enterprises were hacked.

Symantec's 'State of Enterprise Security' report finds that 100% of surveyed companies experienced "cyber losses," with an average loss of $2 million each in 2009.

The IT department at Valdosta State University discovered that a hacker managed to breach a school server storing the personal information of more than 170,000 students and faculty.

The security software company announced improvements to its portfolio of on-demand e-mail and Web protection applications after eclipsing the 575,000-customer threshold.

So-called "Kneber" botnet collects log-in credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites, and e-mail systems to steal corporate and government data.

The companies are collaborating on a set of jointly designed, interoperable applications that will be integrated into Brocade's networking equipment products.

AvMed Health Plans is warning more than 200,000 insurance subscribers that a pair of laptops were stolen sometime in December, exposing customers' names, addresses and Social Security numbers.

Javelin Strategy & Research report finds that identity theft cases increased 12 percent last year and affected more than 11.1 million adults in the U.S.

More than 27,000 people had their names, Social Security numbers, and in some cases, bank account information, compromised when Ceridian's online service was breached.

McAfee security researchers predict Internet-based cyber attacks will continue to escalate in quantity, sophistication as hackers target the most popular social networking sites, search topics in 2010.

A review of major data breach incidents in the past year found that most hackers used SQL injection to infiltrate enterprise networks.

Hackers, possibly from China, managed to infiltrate the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission's database last month.

Security software vendor Sophos' survey reveals that 72 percent of companies are concerned that employee behavior on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, will put their data at risk.

Fake charities tied to the devastating earthquake in Haiti and 419-style scams related to the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament were common spam themes in January, according to AppRiver.

More than 4,000 patients' personal information was compromised after a laptop was stolen from an employee of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) medical school.

PandaLabs security researchers this week notified users that a fake virus alert was inundating Facebook walls in an attempt to get users to download bogus antivirus software.

A hard drive with data including the personal information of more than 250,000 people has gone missing from the National Archives and Records Administration.

Forty percent of IT executives are bracing for a major security incident in their sector within the next year, and only 20 percent think they'll avoid a cyber attack in the next five years.

Senior executives at major oil firms were hit with a series of unsolicited e-mails containing malware designed to steal key proprietary data.

Ponemon Institute and PGP Corp. study finds average security breach incident costs companies more than $6.7 million in 2009.

Between 220,000 and 500,000 members' Social Security numbers, birth dates, medical information, and addresses were stored on dozens of disks swiped from the insurer's Chattanooga, Tenn. call center.

Symantec security researchers found that 33 of the top 100 search results from "Massachusetts senate race results" took users to malicious sites.

Companies boost online security by offering upgraded security suite for 9 million FiOS Internet and high-speed broadband customers.

RSA queried 4,539 people and found that while more people know about phishing and spam scams than ever before, they're still falling for them in record numbers.

Market researchers expect "strong double-digit" growth in 2010 for most security applications as IT spending begins its modest recovery.

Russia overtook the U.S. and China as the world's leading source of cyber attacks according to Akamai Technologies' "State of the Internet" report for the third quarter of 2009.

An external drive was swiped from a Kaiser Permanente employee's car in December, compromising more than 15,000 patients' personal data.

A hacker last month infiltrated a server hosting the online banking system of Suffolk County National Bank in New York, putting 8,000-plus customers' login information at risk.

Adobe finally released its cross-platform fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities in its popular Reader and Acrobat applications.

McAfee on Monday released its latest spam report including the list of the Top 25 men and women found in spam subject lines in 2009.

School officials say more than 130,000 student records dating as far back as 1987 were compromised by a hacker who accessed EWU's computer network.

An Indiana man has filed a class action lawsuit against RockYou, alleging it failed to protect the personal data of more than 32 million customers.

No stranger to hacking attacks, the social networking site has banned new users from selecting 370 passwords that it says are too easy for hacking scripts to unlock.

Security software vendor predicts Adobe apps will eclipse Microsoft as most prominent targets for hacking.

More than 30,000 students are now receiving notifications that a hacker or hackers had breached three separate computers, exposing their personal information.

Socially engineered scams, poorly protected databases and the arrival of Windows 7 will keep security software vendors and their clients busy in the new year.

North Carolina community colleges fess up to security breach that exposed Social Security and driver's license numbers of more than 51,000 people

Company officials acknowledge serious security problem in its PDF viewing and editing applications but won't provide the patch for almost a month.

The software developer's security team also thinks another big computer worm outbreak like Conficker is possible.

McAfee's December spam report finds spammers are still operating with relative impunity despite looming six-year anniversary of FTC's Can-Spam Act.