“Anonymous has very few hackers, it has very few activists… It is very misleading to call the groups hacktivists. The common attribute is angst. The talented ones are either quitting or starting to do things that are more clandestine.”

A teenage hacker with the handle ‘Pinkie Pie’ has nabbed a $60,000 prize from Google, for launching a full Chrome exploit for the second time.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published its first Annual Incidents Report from data supplied in conformance with Article 13a of the EU’s telecom reform directive.

At this week’s RSA Europe Conference in London, representatives from the UK Government outlined details of a pan-government model for identity assurance that engages the services of third-party ID verification providers

We’re not in Kansas anymore: The third quarter of 2012 saw a marked increase in Android adware, while new evidence surfaced suggesting that the Zeus-in-the-Mobile (Zitmo) banking trojan is evolving into a botnet. And, Romanian hackers are continuing to…

DDoS attacks are being used as a component in the newly emerged multi-flank attacks, Symantec’s deSouza told his audience at RSA Europe 2012 in London, 09 October 2012.

Art Coviello, executive vice president , EMC Corporation and executive chairman, RSA, opened RSA 2012 with a very clear message in his keynote: perimeter-based security strategies need to be replaced with intelligence-based strategies.

No slouches in spotting an opportunity, the bad guys have already focused on Rovio’s new Angry Birds spin-off, Bad Piggies. Be careful what you install – it might be a real pig.

Despite the Mac reputation as being more secure because of Apple’s tight control over its vertically integrated ecosystem, Mac-specific malware and advanced persistent attacks (APTs) against human rights groups is on the rise, cautions Citizen Lab Seni…

Apocalypse has come to World of Warcraft: whole cities have been massacred in the online adventure game, leaving nothing but smoking wreckage.