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This is a busy time of year for hackers out to steal personal and financial information during the hectic online holiday shopping season. Among the big companies recently hit are McDonald's, Gawker and Walgreen. Don't let your vigilance slip amid the merrymaking.

Don't blame the hackers. Amazon.com (AMZN) said its websites in Europe suffered an outage of more than 30 minutes on Sunday night. The online retailer said the outage was due to a "hardware failure" rather than a politically motivated cyber assault. Sponsored Links "The brief interruption...

Almost a year after Google's China servers got hacked, launching a standoff between Google and the Chinese government over censorship, a set of classified cables released by WikiLeaks confirms that the Chinese government was indeed involved in the cyberattacks.

Everyone knows there are identity thieves who want to drain your bank accounts and siphon off your credit. But did you know there are scam artists out to steal your health benefits? So far, 1.5 million Americans have suffered from medical identity theft, at a cost of $29 billion.

If your gym wants to use your fingerprints as a biometric ID to save you the trouble of carrying a membership card, is this a good thing? National chain 24-Hour Fitness is hoping to use your most unchangeable identifier to get you to the Stairmaster a bit faster, but is it worth the risk?

Apple says it plans to release a fix for two security flaws in its iOS operating system when it sends out its next software update. The flaws in iOS, which runs the iPhone, iPad and iPod, came to light this week, and could let hackers gain complete control over other users' mobile devices.

Security researchers have identified two vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS that could potentially allow malicious attackers to gain complete control of other people's iPhones, iPads and iPods, according to an advisory by Vupen Security.

A rogue Russian counterfeiting operation cranked out $9 million worth of fake checks and cashed them using two familiar ruses for duping consumers: posting fake "help wanted" ads to job-search sites, and convincing applicants to act as "money-mules" to bulk-cash bogus checks.

In a highly anticipated demonstration at the Black Hat computer-security conference in Las Vegas, IOActive director Barnaby Jack hacked into two ATMs using two different techniques. He's found a flaw in every ATM he's looked at, he told an applauding audience.

A proposed cyber-security bill is stoking fears over the creation of a presidential "Internet kill switch." The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (S. 3480), which now moves to the Senate floor for a...