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A hacker known in the cybercriminal underground as “soldier” has stolen $3.2 million from major U.S. corporations in the past six months, according to researchers at anti-virus firm Trend Micro.

HP needs 6-8 weeks to ship additional TouchPads, according to a leaked email sent to customers. HP is prepping one last run for its defunct tablet.

Because traditional approaches to security don't port easily to public or private clouds, the nonprofit Cloud Security Alliance is working to help CIOs assess the security levels of various cloud providers.

Some 8 million web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the PCs of unsuspecting site visitors.

Millions of Web pages are hacker landmines

I have been using an evaluation version of SafeSync for Business from Trend Micro for about a week now. My new laptop had been pestering me about data backup ever since I got it, and the opportunity presented itself with this evaluation to backup my data on the cloud. So, I went for it, with pleasing results.

In his latest security blog, Dave Asprey refers to Gartner's recent report - entitled `Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing: Does Cloud Security Belong?' - and notes the report's conclusion that most companies have cloud strategies, but few have cloud-centric strategies.

Google said Wednesday that hackers based in China gained access to hundreds of Gmail accounts, including some belonging to senior U.S. government officials and military personnel. The personal Gmail account of one Cabinet-level official was compromised, an official with knowledge of the breach said.

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly said, "because that's where the money is." Although he later denied saying that, the quote endures and is applied to both legitimate businesses and criminal enterprises, including the production and distribution of what we generally think of as computer viruses or malware.

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Trend Micro Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eva Chen said she hopes for the security-software maker’s revenue to increase by at least 10 percent over the longer term a year as demand grows from an expanding cloud computing.

Use news of earthquake, tsunami to solicit donations, trick users into downloading fake AV software, say experts