Government psychologist Tanya Byron has called for a fresh review into regular and mobile internet usage by minors, suggesting that the social networking industry should have an accepted code of conduct in order to protect under-age users.

Tech vendors, interest groups, and academics have formed a coalition advocating for modification of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which they claim is severely out-of-date.

Microsoft has discovered a slew of bugs in Office 2010 by building what amounts to a legitimate botnet for software testing. Engineers within Microsoft have created a grid-style system that employs unused computing time on internal PCs to run fuzz test…

eBay is the victim of a phishing attack that uses its own compromised server, according to email filtering company Red Condor.

eBay is the victim of a phishing attack that uses its own compromised server, according to email filtering company Red Condor.

IBM is working with the US Federal Aviation Administration on research to secure the US civilian aviation system from electronic attack.

IBM is working with the US Federal Aviation Administration on research to secure the US civilian aviation system from electronic attack.

Vietnamese speakers have been targeted in an attack that researchers are describing as politically motivated.

Social gaming networks are becoming a fruitful space for spammers thanks to socially promiscuous users, according to research published by anti-malware company BitDefender.

Malware adaptation rates are getting faster, according to a report from Blue Coat Systems. The average lifespan of malware dropped to two hours last year, from up to seven hours in 2007, it said, adding that this has had a significant effect on the eff…