The New York District Attorney's Office has indicted 55 individuals for their participation in an identity theft ring that siphoned off more than $2 million from its victims and their financial institutions. The arrests prove once again that computer systems don’t commit cybercrimes, people do.

For some Apple users the holiday season of 2011 was not happy as two different scams tried to trick users into giving up their passwords, sign-in names and even credit card numbers. As Apple becomes more popular so do the number of scammers who want an illegal piece of the action.

UPS, or Big Brown as it is sometimes known, is instituting several changes to its privacy policy this year that actually makes its customers’ privacy a little less private.

The Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security by independent research outfit Ponemon Institute finds data breaches were up 32 percent in 2011 due to “sloppy mistakes and “unsecured mobile devices.”

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-Cert) sent out an alert Dec. 29 warning that the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN, typically the default protection on millions of routers, is susceptible to a “brute force” vulnerability.