It's not just phishing scams (http://www.daniweb.com/news/story231517.html) that Facebook users have to worry about right now,

According to Roger Thompson, the Chief Research Officer with...

Symantec has detected a new Trojan which targets Skype users in order to monitor and record conversations made using the Internet telephony service. Apparently the source code for this particular...

The High Court in the UK will this Friday decide if an appeal against the Home Office backed decision to extradite Gary McKinnon on hacking charges to the US is to be upheld or, as seems likely, not....

So Google reckons that it can provide the perfect operating system (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26281/53/) in Chrome, even to the point where according to Google's Engineering Director, Linus...

Can anyone top this: the Ministry of Defence here in the UK has admitted that last year it managed to lose a server. A whole one, and get this, it was meant to be located in a secure government...

Where would we be without the hole in the wall, that magical machine that provides us with cash whenever we need it? Where would we be without online banking, that magical system that lets us pay our...

Ever wondered why your WiFi doesn't work as well as you expected, especially if you live in a highly populated part of town? The obvious, and oft-repeated, answer is that all those WiFi networks...

Last week, former UK Prime Minister and current Quartet Envoy to the Middle East on behalf of the EU, UN, US and Russia, Tony Blair (http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/) was hacked. Well, the Tony Blair...

The US Army has successfully finished field testing the Warfighter Information Network - Tactical. Better known as WIN-T for short, a $10 billion secure and mobile broadband communications network...

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr got together for a rare live performance, and according to reports (http://www.scmagazineus.com/Paul-McCartneys-website-hacked-to-distribute-malware/article/130330/) it...

Adobe has yet to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader applications which is in the wild and being exploited by malicious types using malformed PDF files. Now, more than two...

According to reports, (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29447088/) the security relating to the official Presidential helicopter, Marine One, has been breached. It would appear that engineering and comms...

Reports suggest that Google Earth might have put the top secret British nuclear defence headquarters, at the Faslane HM Naval Base Clyde in Scotland, at risk from terrorist attack after the satellite...

It's that time of year when the Mobile World Congress hits Barcelona, and McAfee has taken advantage of the fact to announce findings from new research that shows mobile device manufacturers are now...

McAfee has today announced that it has launched a Cybersecurity Expert Council which features security experts from some of the largest companies in the world, including the likes of BAE Systems,...

According to the DC Examiner (http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/012909-Ex-Fannie_Mae_worker_charged_with_planting_computer_virus.html) a former contract worker with Fannie Mae has been indicted, and...

Heartland Payment Systems, one of the biggest card payment processors in the US, has been the victim of what could well be the biggest security breach of its kind. Malicious software installed onto...

Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who is still fighting against extradition to the US despite the European Court of Human Rights ruling he should go, has played yet another card in his battle for...

According to an application vulnerability specialist, Fortify Software, HUB Computer Systems in the US has been hit by a $52,000 phone bill following the unauthorised access...

Facebook spam (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2289.html) is nothing news, nor for that matter is Facebook malware...

The IBM Internet Security Systems division, better known simply as ISS, has today warned of the 'perfect storm' of security threats which has been created by the global economic slowdown, an...

What happens when your security software thinks your operating system is out to get you? Users of AVG8 discovered the answer when it decided that a Windows XP user32.dll system file was infected with...

Hey, now that is pretty cool! Hot on the heels of a report (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21585/53/) suggesting that some 280 million people around the world have suffered some kind of data loss...

According to Russian forensic security experts and 'password recovery' specialists ElcomSoft, the days of protecting documents and files with 40-bit encryption are now officially over.

It has now...

As unlikely as it may sound, Elvis Presley has been cloned.

OK, it's a fair cop, not your actual Elvis Presley but rather his passport. According to reports a gang of Dutch hackers have managed to...

Peter Wood admits he walked unchallenged into an insurance company and was able to steal all their data. He is not in trouble though, it was part of a security exercise and he was hired to try and...

According to VeriSign, more than half of the Internet using people on the planet can get protection from an EV SSL-enabled web browser. Protection, that is, from data and identity theft.

According...

That, my friends, is the message being touted by the latest Security Threat report to emerge from Sophos (http://www.sophos.com) which says that one web page was infected every five seconds (count...

According to IM services provider ProcessOne (http://www.process-one.net) a staggering 72 percent of UK businesses have banned the use of IM software such as MSN and AIM citing security fears as the...

One of the best known soccer clubs in the world is tackling the phishing threat and has placed a penalty on the head of those who might try to con their fans on the web. As the annual InfoSecurity...

Following on from the RSA security conference the other week, where PayPal published a paper which included comment from chief information security officer Michael Barrett that suggested 'unsafe' web...

If you believe the results of a survey conducted by InfoSecurity Europe (http://www.infosec.co.uk) then women are four times as likely to give away their passwords for chocolate than men. This...

IT Week reports (http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2214006/firms-left-behind-criminals) that business is just too slow to respond to cyber-criminals, and as a result the hackers are simply worried...

According to reports (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9070840&intsrc=hm_list) it would appear that Microsoft has confirmed the presence of a critical...

Security researchers at McAfee (http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/03/12/another-mass-attack-underway/) have uncovered one of the biggest attacks of its kind to date, with some...

Unified threat management specialists Fortinet has announced (http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/reports/roundup_feb_2008.html) the most reported high-risk threats during the course of the last month,...

McAfee Avert Labs (http://www.avertlabs.com) has warned that the number of spammers which use the 'out of office' functionality of web-based email systems to distribute junk mail is on the increase....

Who could forget DVD Jon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen), the Linux guru who was co-author of DeCSS? This Linux application 'unlocked' DVDs with content otherwise protected by...

It has been a long time coming, but a virus writer has finally been arrested by the Japanese authorities. According to security specialists Sophos (http://www.sophos.com) law enforcement agencies in...

It doesn’t really matter where you live in the world, the chances are that your country has been hit by some high profile data loss scandal during the course of the last year or so. Everything from...