Microsoft has kicked off a contest aimed at turning the tables on hackers by offering big money prizes for innovative tactics to foil cyber attacks.

Top US defence contractor, Lockheed Martin, said that it had successfully warded off "a significant and tenacious" attack on its information systems network.

As if being unemployed isn't bad enough, 210,000 unemployed residents of Massachusetts may have had personal data about them stolen from the state agency that is supposed to be helping them out.

I have a new Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) account password, patched my PS3 to the new firmware and I’m back online shooting at real people, rather that poor AI in Crysis 2.

The security industry has been rocked by a near-constant stream of breaches and threats in 2011, and it’s having a real impact on security resellers’ business and customer interaction, but in a very positive way.

One of the bigger consumer news stories over the Easter long weekend was the very large-scale hacker assault on the Sony PlayStation and Qriocity networks. ‘Large scale’ to the extent that 75 million accounts are potentially affected, and all kinds of personal data, from billing addresses through to credit cards, potentially compromised.

Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.

A popular Twitter application used to measure the influence of Twitter users has been hacked and used to send spam messages.