Disputed ex-Chinese province Taiwan is reportedly playing a big role in the global cyberwar. Security experts say the island is a proving ground for Chinese hacker-spies, who attack its IT infrastructure on a regular basis with hundreds of attempts per…

A new web application attack report reveals that retailers suffer twice as many SQL injection attacks as other industries, and that one website received 94,000 attack requests in 24 hours – or 26 attack requests per minute.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s expected statement on internet porn was duly delivered yesterday, and led to immediate accusations of being confused, unworkable, and the beginning of online censorship.

When Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, went into labor with the child who recently became third in line for the throne of England, the event immediately had millions of royal-watchers riveted – and, apparently, plenty of spammers ready to lever…

The SIM card – long considered the uncrackable heart of the mobile phone – can finally be rooted. Details will be presented by a German researcher at Black Hat on 31 July. Meanwhile estimates put the number of vulnerable phones at either 500 million or…

On Saturday, Canonical – which looks after the Ubuntu Linux user forum – received reports of a site defacement. Within four minutes it had taken the Ubuntu Forums site off-line to investigate what turns out to be a major hack.

Two things happened last week: Apple developers began to receive unexpected password reset emails, and the Apple Developer center was shut down for maintenance. Everything pointed to a breach; but Apple said little.

It’s a rite of passage for many college students to run for student government office – particularly if they have grander political aspirations. But some take it just a tad too seriously (think Tracy Flick in “Election”). Take, for instance, the case o…

It’s a rite of passage for many college students to run for student government office – particularly if they have grander political aspirations. But some take it just a tad too seriously (think Tracy Flick in “Election”). Take, for instance, the case o…

Just as a new report explains why Java vulnerabilities, despite Oracle’s best efforts, remain the hackers’ favored target, a Polish researcher discovers that the latest version, Java 7, is susceptible to a 10-year old attack.