The fate of self-confessed ‘UFO hacker’ Gary McKinnon – who has been on the cusp of being extradited to the US to face charges in connection with unauthorized access to US military networks – will be decided within a matter of weeks, rather than months…

Information security technologies have never as important as they are now, says the German Informatics Society (GI).

The Stuxnet worm marks a watershed in IT security management, says Thomas de Maizière, German minister of the interior.

The advent of sophisticated new malware such as Stuxnet could hamper the development of cloud computing and consequently economic development, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.

The cryptography work of three GCHQ workers in the 1970s – a decade before the precursors to today’s internet got under way – has been recognised in an awards ceremony carried out this morning.

Hard on the heels of last week’s UK and US arrests of cybercriminals using the ZeuS malware to siphon money from internet users’ bank accounts, comes news that a third batch of hackers, this time in the Ukraine, have been arrested.

Demand for IT staff continues to rise, resulting in shortages in some software skills, according to the latest research.

The advent of sophisticated new malware such as Stuxnet could hamper the development of cloud computing and consequently economic development, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.

The police cybercrime unit can tackle only 11% of the 6000 known organised criminal gangs that regularly use computers for illegal purposes, the head of the Metropolitan Police admitted at the weekend.

Symantec has published an in-depth report on the Stuxnet malware in which it notes that, whilst the worm was first discovered in July, it is known to have existed at least one year prior and likely even before.