The zero-day malware exploit against Adobe Acrobat and Reader reported earlier this week appears to have escalated, with Webroot Software noting that the payload from the exploit is generating a cluster of files designed to look like Windows system fil…

The number of computers infected by botnet malware has almost quadrupled each year since 2004, according to a report to be released by Project Honey Pot next week.

One year after the McColo shutdown, spam volumes have not only recovered, but have grown beyond what they were before the rogue ISP was taken offline.

Just when the UK banks have started issuing two-factor authentication devices to a growing number of account holders, a report from the Gartner group claims to show that fraudsters have started to raid user accounts by beating the same technology.

Data security specialist Imperva has issued a warning after discovering a potentially serious SQL injection flaw with Rockyou.com, the social networking application development web portal.

Koobface – the long-running worm which first appeared 12 months ago – is being customised by hackers to crack security systems on website hosting services, and so allow it to auto-create its own web pages.

The UK Ministry of Defence says one of its encrypted laptops was stolen from its headquarters in Whitehall, central London in November – along with the laptop’s encryption key.

The hacker accused of helping to perpetrate the largest credit card theft in US history has agreed to plead guilty as part of a plea bargaining deal with federal prosecutors.

Microsoft’s last Patch Tuesday of the year saw the release of fixes for five flaws in its Internet Explorer browser, including a critical zero-day security vulnerability that was first publicly disclosed three weeks ago.

After several months of testing with a few clients, Fortify has rolled out a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its application vulnerability technology, Fortify 360.