Hard on the heels of a raft of WinXP patches and updates on Tuesday of this week, it seems that a nasty USB-based zero-day flaw is hitting users of the popular operating system.

Research published in parallel with the opening of today’s e-Crime summit in Wales, claims to show that online crime now costs the UK economy £10bn a year and is a growing threat to businesses that are becoming ever more dependent on IT and online syst…

Criminal hackers are using more advanced methods of trying to extract users card credentials, the latest attack vector being malware that launches a fake Visa/MasterCard 3-DSecure screen.

Researchers from Symantec claim to have seen a back door trojan, Trojan.Sasfis, which is being actively promoted under headings such as Amazon_Tracking_Number and iTunes_certificate.

Microsoft has signed an agreement with Russia to share the source code of multiple products, according to US reports.

Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security update due for release on July 13 is small, with only four bulletins

Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security update due for release on 13 July is small with only four bulletins

A mobile security research firm claims that botnets have been discovered ‘in the wild’ which are targetting large numbers of Symbian Series 60 operating system smartphones.

Users of the BlackBerry smartphone will no longer have to stare enviously at the security apps for Android handsets and Apple iPhones, as RIM has developed a native security app for its popular business smartphone.

Microsoft has integrated Facebook and Windows Live Messenger into its Outlook email application.