Trusteer says it has detected a completely new version of the Zeus password stealing trojan that has been designed to steal online banking credentials.

The hackers responsible for the Operation Aurora attack against Google also managed to compromise its single sign-on password system, according to a report in the New York Times this week. The attack, which happened in December, targeted a highly secre…

Anti-malware company Avira has reported an extortion scam designed to scare torrent site users into giving their credit card information to a phishing site.

Research just published by Blockmaster Security claims to show that 42% of employees grossly underestimate the potential fines associated with a data breach.

Businesses need to take note of the increase in malicious cyber activity in emerging countries, particularly those offshore and outsourced operations, says Symantec.

Administrators at Pennsylvania-based Harriton High School downloaded over 400 screenshots and webcam pictures of student Blake Robbins rather than the one or two previously estimated, according to a new motion filed in the court case between Robbins’ f…

A trojan has appeared posing as an extension to the Google Chrome browser. Delivered via email, the invitation to install the software tempts users with promises of a function to access documents from emails.

Israel has banned Apple’s iPad from entering the country from the US and has threatened to confiscate the newly released devices from passengers at airports.

A report just released claims to show that the UK and French internet user community are leading the way when it comes to online security but are less bothered about data protection issues.

A Daily Telegraph third-party website is the latest high-profile site to be defaced by hackers apparently unhappy about the news organisation referring to Romanians as gypsies.