A new distributed denial of service (DDoS) trojan, which attacks blogs and forums that criticize the Vietnamese Communist Party, is part of an increasing trend of politically motivated cyber attacks, according to Joe Stewart, director of malware analys…

Internet security firm Webroot has acquired Derby, UK-based anti-malware cloud provider Prevx.

US internet security firm Webroot has acquired Derby-based anti-malware cloud provider Prevx.

Google is expanding its reward program to compensate security researchers who find flaws in Google’s web applications, such as YouTube, Blogger, and Orkut.

Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.

Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.

The Identify Theft Council, a recently launched consortium of businesses, community groups, and law enforcement based in San Francisco, is proposing a “Neighborhood Watch” program for identity theft modeled on the programs designed to reduce neighborho…

Black Hat Abu Dhabi takes place at the Emirates Palace on November 8/11.

A man arrested in Armenia last week in connection with the operation of the BredoLab botnet – which the Dutch authorities recently shut down – has been revealed to be a major affiliate of the Spamit.com group.

Most organisations acknowledge they are part of the critical national infrastructure (CNI) and believe a cyber attack could disrupt their country’s mission-critical systems in the next two years, but are not well prepared for it, a study has revealed.