Canada’s spy agency says its network of informants has been “imperiled” by a Federal Court of Appeal decision that struck down its right to always shield the names of its sources. Canada’s spy agency says its network of informants has been “imperilled” by a Federal Court of Appeal decision that struck down its right to […]

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 […]