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A federal bioterror laboratory already under investigation by Congress for safety issues has had repeated incidents of security doors left unlocked to an area where experiments occur with dangerous germs, according to internal agency e-mails obtained by USA TODAY. In one incident, an unauthorized employee was discovered inside a restricted area. A Centers for Disease […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is warning American businesses about an unusually potent computer virus that infected Iran’s oil industry even as suspicions persist that the United States is responsible for secretly creating and unleashing cyberweapons against foreign countries. The government’s dual roles of alerting U.S. companies about these threats and producing powerful software […]

Flame malware could use Bluetooth to exfiltrate data, record phone conversations, or learn the social network of a target. The Flame malware, detailed publicly for the first time Monday, has been described by security researchers working overtime to unravel its inner workings as “the largest and most complex piece of malicious code they’ve ever seen.” […]

The number of official government secrets rose to its highest level last year, auditors reported Tuesday, even though President Obama promised that his administration would be the most open and transparent in history. U.S. officials created more than 92 million classified documents in fiscal 2011, up from 76.5 million the year before, the Information Security […]

Business executives and national security leaders are of one mind over the need to improve the security of the computers that control the U.S. power grid, the financial system, water treatment facilities and other elements of critical U.S. infrastructure. But they divide over the question of who bears responsibility for that effort. The disagreement stands […]

In a decision that will satisfy nobody, the jury in the Oracle-Google copyright case has concluded that Google did indeed infringe Oracle’s Java copyrights – but failed to agree whether Google’s actions amounted to ‘fair use’. The decision means that Google won’t have to redesign its Android operating system, but may mean it’s forced to […]

Researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Injury Control Research Center at West Virginia University (WVU-ICRC) have found that intimate partner violence resulted in 142 homicides among women at work in the U.S. from 2003 to 2008, a figure which represents 22 percent of the 648 workplace homicides among

The U.S. Homeland Security Department should work with companies in setting cybersecurity standards, said Wes Bush, chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC), one of the nation’s largest defense contractors. “The notion of having DHS involved with industries in a partnership approach to ultimately lead to standards setting, I think that’s the right […]

District 203 administrators will get live camera feeds on their phones Administrators at some Naperville schools soon will be able to keep an eye on things whether they’re across the building or across the country. Naperville Unit District 203 plans to allow administrators access to live security camera images from mobile devices such as iPads […]

Consumers still have faith in payment cards, but Global Payments Inc.’s massive data breach will make life tougher for issuers trying to reassure audiences that all is well. News of the event rippled across mainstream websites over the past weekend, reawakening consumer and industry concerns about the risk to millions when criminals expose sensitive data, […]