China faced the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its history over the weekend, leading to a two-to-four hour shutdown of swaths of IP addresses using .cn, China’s country code top-level domain.

The concept of a hacker causing a heart attack by remotely compromising a pacemaker or shutting down an insulin pump on a diabetic is unfortunately not in the realm of science fiction, with very real vulnerabilities having been found in connected medic…

Anti-virus companies don’t just block malware – they also give their customers the option to block ‘potentially unwanted apps’ or PUAs. These aren’t strictly malware, but can violate a user’s privacy. Adware can potentially be a PUA.

The problem revolves around the upcoming Trusted Platform Module v 2.0 developed by the US-dominated Trusted Computing Group, which cannot be deactivated by the user. The concern is that this provides a back door for Microsoft, and by extension, for th…

Kim Dotcom warned earlier this month that if a new bill – the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) bill known as TICS – were to become law, he would move Mega’s privacy services out of New Zealand. TICS was passed yesterday in the …

The cost of cybercrime is frequently used to justify the cost of security products and the implementation of new – and invariably more stringent – cyber laws. But what if those figures are wrong? Could it mean that industry, and government, gets its en…

The contradiction behind a remote access trojan (RAT) such as Poison Ivy is that while it is easy to use and widely used, it can also indicate a sophisticated – or APT-style – attack designed to exfiltrate specific data from major organizations.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated two of its computer security guides to help system managers protect their systems from hackers and malware.

When Microsoft announced that it would discontinue support for Windows XP starting on April 8, 2014, many companies began the long process of transitioning to modern operating systems like Windows 7 or Windows 8. But there are others that won’t – and t…

The previously disclosed flaw in Android’s Bitcoin wallet has now been quantified in terms of its scope: the vulnerability has left over 360,000 applications up for attack, subsequently compromising the data of thousands of users, as well as their cybe…