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Eleven people have been charged or indicted in a massive identity theft and computer fraud scheme involving some of the largest data breaches in recent U.S. history, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

Web-based e-mail is booming. Services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail are convenient, accessible and, best of all, free. Many of us have come to rely on them without giving it a second thought.

A North Carolina man last week was sentenced to 110 years in prison after admitting that he and a co-conspirator hacked into computers used by young girls and used illicitly gained data to blackmail them.

A honeypot is simply a "closely monitored computing resource that we want to be probed, attacked or compromised," Niels Provos and Thorsten Holz tell us in their new book, Virtual Honeypots.

Google believes that its consumer-grade Web applications represent the future of enterprise IT. But while Google is quick to trumpet its products' innovative features, the search giant hasn't said much about their security. Until recently, that is.

Hewlett Packard's acquisition of Web applications security specialist SPI Dynamics on June 19 illustrates a growing demand among enterprise customers to have vulnerability-scanning tools integrated into their software development platforms.

Back in May, we celebrated CIO's 100th issue by introducing a continuing series — CIO Retrospectives: Seminal Issues & Technologies — where CIO writers revisit seminal events, issues and technologies we've covered over the years. This month, CIO writers cast their respective eyes backwards at that plucky tag-team of security and privacy.

Microsoft has taken the wraps off a new security program that uses automated "HoneyMonkeys" to patrol the Web, seeking out sites that automatically install malicious code on Windows XP systems.

With so many types of malware stalking the Internet, companies pile on the e-mail defences. By Sue Hildreth and Michael Crawford

A report on Trojan e-mail attacks against critical infrastructure systems in the U.K. highlights an emerging trend away from mass-mailing worms and viruses to far more targeted ones, analysts said.

Two new incarnations of the W32/Sober computer worm are spreading in large numbers across the Internet since yesterday, infecting home and business PCs around the globe.