A new malicious Java application aimed at fomenting widespread distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks is making the rounds: a multi-platform bot capable of running on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Patent stripping is a form of asset stripping – but less destructive. It seems to be what Google has done with Motorola. It bought Motorola for $12.5 billion in 2011, and announced an agreement yesterday to sell it to Lenovo for $2.91 billion – minus t…

The FBI announced yesterday that Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, aka ‘Gribodemon’ and ‘Harderman’ has pled guilty to charges accusing him of being the primary developer and distributor of the SpyEye banking trojan.

Mozilla Thunderbird, a free, open-source, cross-platform application for managing email and news feeds, has a critical validation and filter bypass vulnerability in version 17.0.6.

A new report from a secure cloud hosting company shows that the effective use of IP reputation filtering creates an additional, or ‘blackhole’, layer of security. When probes from known attack sites return no response, the attackers don’t probe deeper,…

Security experts have long warned that users should be more concerned about the sometimes excessive personal data that some apps take from their hosts. Now it seems that criminals and advertisers are not the only people interested in this information: …

Hard on the heels of Target and Neiman Marcus being hit with point-of-sale cyber-heists, another retailer is warning of a potential data breach. The arts-and-crafts supply purveyor Michaels has confirmed that it is working with the US Secret Service to…

Paying for gas at the pump has become a way of life, but even this innocuous activity can open consumers up to identity theft. Case in point: thirteen defendants are facing a whopping 426-count indictment in Manhattan for stealing more than $2 million …

Coca-cola admitted Friday to the theft of an unspecified number of laptops containing personal information on 74,000 individuals – including, it turns out, variously social security numbers, driving license details, salaries, and ethnicity; but fewer t…

The FBI announced Friday that it had arrested two operators of a US-based e-mail hacking website, and three customers of foreign e-mail hacking sites. Operators of foreign e-mail hacking sites were arrested by national authorities in Romania, India and…