Whisper Systems, one of the more innovative Android software houses, has released a beta test edition of Whispercore, an extended version of Google Android for Nexus S and Nexus One smartphones.

The organisers of Black Hat and its parallel Defcon security event, due to be held in Las Vegas this summer, have announced a number of enhancements, including live event streaming for Black Hat, and a kids security education session for Defcon 19.

SQL injection flaw is the most dangerous software vulnerability, according to the 2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors.

Hard on the heels of publicly slating – and declaring war – on the LulzSec hacktivist group, Teamp0ison, the Dutch hacking group, has posted a large volume of private emails and information about former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A Trend Micro security researcher claims to have discovered a new type of malware infection on the Google Android platform that acts as an SMS (text message) relay.

Building on a presentation he made at the Infosecurity Europe event in late April, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, has warned of the danger that the internet could become a cyberconflict vehicle for governments to attack each other.

Travelodge has confirmed that a “small number” of customers have received a spam e-mail via a third party, but insists that no financial data is at risk.

The European Union (EU) is planning new legislation to mandate companies to publicly admit that they have suffered a data breach.

The reputation of the Russian ChronoPay e-money service has taken a further battering after a security researcher linked the co-founder of the service – who has apparently fled from Russia – with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a …

Users of the Installous software – an extensible code environment for jailbroken Apple iPhones – could be in for a shock if they are thinking of upgrading to a jailbroken version of iOS5, which is already doing the rounds of the iPhone cognoscenti.