A Tokyo-based Symantec researcher claims to have discovered another batch of infected Google Android apps, subverted by what he calls the follow-up to the now-infamous DroidDream malware.

China may be behind the hack of RSA’s SecurID database and defense contractors that depend on the SecureID token for secure remote access by employees, according to security analysts.

An advanced version of the Alureon (aka TDDS) rootkit worm is reported to have been enhanced by the addition of an in-worm DHCP server.

A new Android app – FaceNiff – has been released that is claimed to allow automated cookie interception over public-access WiFi connections.

Cyber safety is more about awareness than technology, but that message is not being communicated effectively, says James Lyne, director of technology strategy at Sophos.

While a Sony representative was telling a House panel that its networks were secure, hacker group LulzSecurity was releasing a file containing personal information on over one million Sony customers.

UK spy agency MI6 is reported to have hacked one of the Jihadist publications that supports al Qaeda’s cause, replacing bomb making recipes with ingredient and cooking instructions for that most dastardly of culinary weapons: cupcakes.

This week’s attack – allegedly from China – against users of Google’s email account servers has highlighted the dangers ahead for cloud service operators, according to Node4, a hosted IT systems specialist.

A fake iPhone was sold for £95.00 to a worker standing outside a restaurant in Stoke-on-Trent. Unfortunately for the purchaser, Yasir Hussain, by the time he realised it was a fake, the man and his van that sold him the mobile had driven off.

Research just published suggests that many of us are struggling to keep track of files on our office PCs, with 58% admitting to have struggled to find important files or documents they thought had been saved on their work computer.