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.

Ultra-secure encryption of sensitive data sent by banks, hospitals and government organisations could be a reality within three to five years, says Toshiba Research Europe.

Porn sites are still the most likely online destinations to be compromised with malware, in spite of increasing attacks on legitimate non-porn websites, according to a report released by security company Commtouch this week.

A former National Security Agency senior executive has been indicted for retaining classified information, obstructing justice and making false statements.

A pair of security researchers have identified a way to use security tools within Internet Explorer 8 to compromise a website. The attack uses cross-site scripting filters implemented in the latest version of the Microsoft browser to execute cross-site…

A Websense researcher has released a forensics tool designed to identify malicious web content from within the Firefox browser. Called Fireshark, the plug-in was released on Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference by Stephan Chenette, a principa…

The website for the open source Apache Web server at Apache.org was compromised this month by a targeted attack, said the Apache Software Foundation, which has provided a detailed blow-by-blow account of the hack.

The latest monthly malware and vulnerability statistics released by Kaspersky Lab claims to show that the exploitation of vulnerability in Internet Explorer was the most significant cybercrime threat during the month of March.

Detailed figures just released by the Ministry of Defence show that the military arm of the government had a total of 347 data loss incidents in 2009, with 71 further losses of confidential information in January plus February of this year alone.

One of the least-reported areas of IT security in recent times is the topic of firewalls but, according to Gabi Reish, head of network security with Check Point, the technology is now into its fifth generation, largely as a result of the rise of the in…