Apple has come in for criticism on user forums for a new anti-fraud and anti-phishing warning system seen in its Safari Mobile web browser for the iPhone. Forum users report that the feature – seen in v3.1 of the iPhone’s operating system – is less tha…

Online scams related to holidays, global events, and popular news stories are common, but September 11 scammers really scraped the bottom of the moral barrel last week. Scareware scammers are using the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks to …

Wigan Council has been been forced to sign an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following the theft of a laptop, which resulted into the personal data on around 43 000 children and teenagers being potentially open to abuse.

Security software budgets are expected to grow 4% in 2010, and security services budgets could grow almost 3%, according to Gartner.

An Edinburgh-based company has developed a relatively low-cost security tag that alerts users when a linked mobile phone moves more than 25 metres away. The Bluetooth-enabled keyring tab – known as Nio – comes with its own USB-rechargeable battery and …

After four years in gestation, the Home Gateway (HG) – an intelligent broadband/networking interface device designed to act as a hub for homes and small offices – is reaching fruition.

Barclays’ investment arm has been fined £2.45m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to report its investment details correctly.

A ‘proof of concept’ virus called Win32/Induc.A is causing problems for programmers – including malware writers, according to this month’s ESET ThreatSense Report.

Research by the 3rd Man, an electronic fraud and security specialist, has uncovered some interesting statistics about cardholder-not-present transactions, as well as fraudulent mail order plus online card purchases in the UK.

O2 – as well as BT subsidiary internet service provider Plusnet – have both responded to a potential XSS security flaw identified in the Thomson TG565 and TG565n wireless broadband routers they issue to their internet users.