The Russian embassy in London has complained that its website mysteriously crashed over the weekend, after being hit by a DDoS attack. The site downing reportedly coincided with Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Moscow.

An associate professor in the computer science department of the University of California has developed a proof-of-concept app that uses the smartphone/tablet’s on-device accelerometer/gyroscope technology to interpret – and record – users’ keystrokes.

The number of botnets running on compromised devices increased in the first half of 2011, despite the recent takedown of a number of high-profile botnets, according to Damballa’s first half 2011 Advanced Threat Report.

Malware for smartphones and tablets is up 273% in the first half of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010, a study from G Data has shown.

Tomer Bitton, a reverse engineering specialist with Imperva, has successfully dissected the operation of the Morto worm, a malware executable that is notable for being the only worm seen to date that exploits Microsoft’s remote desktop protocol (RDP).

The arrest of Pavel Vrublevsky, the co-founder of Russia’s largest processor of online payments earlier this year, was the result of a bribe by his fellow co-founder, security researcher Brian Krebs has reported.

Over 70% of healthcare providers have suffered patient data breaches within the last 12 months, according to a survey by consulting firm Veriphyr.

An M86 Security researcher has revealed some of the practices of typosquatting – where darker elements of the internet register and populate domains/pages that are similar to high-profile major web portals, either infecting or ripping off users in the …

Cybercrime costs the world $388 billion per year, according to a new report by Symantec’s Norton unit.

PhoneGuard has announced that its DriveSafe app is now available for free on the Apple iPhone. Amongst other features, the app – which is also available for the Android and BlackBerry platforms – uses GPS tracking to temporarily lock the handset’s keyb…