Cyber criminals who are alleged to have made $14m (£9m) from advertising fraud have been arrested in Estonia. The FBI alleged that the gang infected more then four million computers in 100 countries with...
In the wake of WikiLeaks, the Department of Defense is planting virtual “honeypots” across its systems as it looks to thwart a new wave of digital espionage, a military abstract reveals. By automatically generating and distributing believable misinformation, DARPA’s...
The Finnish cell of the Anonymous hacktivist collective has issued a statement claiming responsibility for “exposing” a parliamentary aid’s affiliation to an active neo-Nazi group. The attack and subsequent data release reported by Anonymous...
A malicious piece of software designed for iPhones and iPads has been created to show that Apple’s app store is not immune to malware. The code was designed to look like a stock price...
There has been some fretting in Anonymous lately about its latest, rather dangerous operation to uncover corruption in a shady organization: supporters said they would leak names of people conspiring with one of Mexico’s...
A national computer security campaign is urging smartphone users to do more to protect themselves from unwittingly downloading malware applications. Get Safe Online says that there has been an increase in smartphone malware as...
At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated cyber attack that has been traced to a man in China, according to a new report from security firm Symantec Corp.
Beijing on Monday denied a U.S. commission’s claim that China may have been responsible for hacking incidents on U.S. environment-monitoring satellites, saying that the committee had “ulterior motives” in writing such a draft report.
The intrusions on the satellites, used for earth climate and terrain observation, underscore the potential danger posed by hackers, according to excerpts from the final draft of the annual report by the U.S.-China Economic...
If the Stuxnet virus was the atom bomb of cyberwarfare, then the discovery this week of the “Duqu” virus is the hydrogen bomb, security experts are warning.
