A backdoor trojan apparently aimed at the governments of the Middle East and Central Asia has been detected, with a notable new ability to evade detection by tying its execution to multiple mouse clicks.

Stolen hardware is once again the culprit behind a potential healthcare breach – this time in Washington state, where a private contractor’s laptop containing confidential and personal health information on 652 state Department of Social and Health Ser…

An email campaign spreading malware via links purporting to be either for Men’s Health articles or military-related is spreading quickly, and appear to be coming from Australia or South Korea.

The European Commission has run a public consultation on the enforcement of IPRED – the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive. The consultation closed on the day before April Fool’s Day – but not everybody is amused.

On Thursday last week the American Express website went offline for a couple of hours during a DDoS attack by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters in pursuance of their ongoing protest against the Innocence of Muslims video.

The cloud-based note-taking tool Evernote, with its adorable elephant logo and general user-friendly touchy-feely vibe, seems innocuous enough. However, cybercriminals are giving it a very different character, by hijacking the popular service and using…

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a popular cloud storage service, used by business to store static files, and by individuals to share them. Storage can be either public or private; but new research suggests that public is possibly more public th…

Spamhaus, an IP blacklisting service, has been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for a week. Attack traffic has been rated at up to 300Gbps – three times higher than the previous record, and six times greater than the typical attack r…

Java vulnerabilities are seemingly ubiquitous, with vulnerabilities and zero-days nabbing headlines on what seems like a weekly basis. According to an analysis, that perception cleaves fairly close to reality: 94% of endpoints are vulnerable to at leas…

An internet pedophile has been jailed at the Inner London Crown Court for eight years after using social networks for grooming and encryption to hide his offenses. Because of the encryption, the police can only guess at other crimes.