Just days after an iPhone worm was discovered in the wild, Mac security firm Intego has discovered a hacker tool targeting the iPhone that exploits the same vulnerability.

Understanding what goes on at the various secret service divisions such as MI5 and MI6, as well as GCHQ, has been helped with the news that Qosmos, a network intelligence specialist, will unveil an LI (lawful interception) edition of its ixMachine at M…

An unknown hacker – apparently protesting about terror deaths in Pakistan – has attacked the Durham Police website, forcing it to temporarily close.

Botnet controllers have been using cloud based systems such as the Google cloud platform as command and control nodes for infected PCs, said a researcher at Arbor Networks.

Spam king Sanford Wallace has been ordered to pay US$710.7 million to social networking company Facebook following a federal court case. Wallace is said to have compromised Facebook accounts using phishing emails, and used them to send spam to other me…

It’s taken a while, but the first real iPhone worm has appeared, although its payload appears to be relatively benign – unless that is, you dislike Rick Astley, the 1980s pop star from Newton le-Willows in Lancashire.

A physical pandemic such as the swine flu (H1N1) could swamp internet service providers serving residential users, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office – and the Department Of Homeland Security doesn’t have a plan to deal wit…

Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users’ hard drive.

Anti-virus companies are failing to get the joke after the release of a free arcade game for the Mac that deletes the users’ files during play. Lose/Lose warns ‘victims’ that it is about to delete files on their hard drives before they begin playing, a…

The FBI has slammed poor security in financial institutions, after identifying a drastic rise in money being stolen from small to medium-sized businesses via spearphishing emails, it said in an intelligence note early this week.