In acknowledging a data breach in which information related to as many as 24 million customers was stolen, online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos has taken assertive steps, including compelling customers to change passwords, plus temporarily foregoing 800-number phone service in an effort to redeploy customer-service representatives to respond to customer email.

IBM today issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years. In past prediction packages the company has had some success in predicting the future of telemedicine and nanotechnology.

Here’s an idea, what if you were to create a password that was too embarrassing to share?

The endless stream of news concerning hacks into all kinds of organisations (Sony merely being the poster-boy of the moment) continues to uncover some very disturbing facts in relation to password re-use.

More than 10 per cent of passwords used in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's department can be easily broken in an hour by hackers using "brute force", a report from the Australian National Audit Office says.

A Mozilla database was exposed to the Internet, the Mozilla Foundation disclosed

E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords -- including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere.

Security distributor has teamed up with US-based vendor, Lieberman software.