In the days of dial-up modems, malware authors developed trojans and other black code that dialled premium rate numbers in the background and so generating revenues for their criminal gangs. Today, thanks to the arrival of landline broadband, the proce…

Barclays Bank plans to rewrite its software applications so they can communicate with one another using encryption to lessen the likelihood of fraudsters finding a way into its systems

The German government’s new national ID card – which will start being issued this November – has been publicly hacked on TV by members of the infamous Chaos Computer Club.

Tomorrow is the day that the new PCI DSS 1.2 rules kick in, requiring all level one merchants – defined as firms processing more than 6 million transactions per year – to adhere to the v1.2 security guidelines, or face possible action by their card pro…

Hard on the heels of the spate of Twitter attacks comes news that LinkedIn members are being targeted by carefully crafted fake connection requests that route users to the ZeuS data-downloading malware.

Virtualisation is the key to better information security in cloud computing, says Eric Baize, a board member at cross-industry security initiative, SAFECode.

A number of insurance agents have recently been fined by states for not having a written information security plan in place, and some large insurance firms have reported data breaches involving clients’ personal information. To help address this proble…

The Spamit.com spam affiliate programme, which is responsible for the promotion of spam via a number of outlets worldwide using financial incentives, is to close at the end of this month.

The Stuxnet worm, which has reportedly been successfully targeted at Iranian nuclear plants, is being widely reported as originating from a government agency or well-funded source with political intent. The CEO of Kaspersky Lab, however, says that, whi…

HP has announced it has completed its acquisition of security firm Fortify Software.