According to Ira Winkler, president and acting CEO of the Internet Security Advisory Group, social engineering – as a means of hacking people – is actually a far wider term than many people are aware of.

The FBI has arrested a Florida man in an email hacking probe, codenamed “Operation Hackerazzi”, that involved disclosure of personal information and photos of Hollywood celebrities, including Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera, and Scarlett Johansson.

The ingenuity of cybercriminals has reached a new level, with a leading IT security researcher reporting on the re-tasking of a mini-MP3 player as the mainstay of an ATM skimmer.

It appears that hackers are taking advantage of the interest in Netflix – the California-based IP streaming firm that offers services on specific smartphones in North and South America – by releasing a general Android edition of the software that runs …

Continuing our own brand of a ‘commitment to excellence’, Infosecurity writers took home two awards at this year’s BT Information Security Journalism Awards in London.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has once again demonstrated its lack of understanding of how Adobe PDF format files function as, according the Daily Star tabloid newspaper, anyone with a simple knowledge of page formatting can ‘unblack’ apparently censore…

The ATM industry association – the ATMIA – has published a best practice manual on cash machine security. And a new feature of its recommendations is for developers to help prevent reverse engineering of cash machine software.

A leading IT security researcher claims that hackers are now electronically breaking into US car dealerships – not to steal cars, but the IDs and other credentials of car purchasers, most of whom buy on finance.

Reports that air traffic control data has been found on network kits sold on eBay comes as no surprise, says Philip Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software.

Rumors of a series of German government-developed spyware trojans have been bouncing around for several years, but now the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims to spotted one in the wild.