A highly sophisticated, multi-pronged cybercriminal attack used to steal an estimated €36+ million from more than 30,000 bank accounts across Europe has been uncovered. The attack uses a new, souped-up form of the Zeus trojan.

Kaspersky Lab has broken down the top security stories of 2012, and the list is certainly filled full of doozies. The Mac OS X Flashback epidemic, cyber-espionage, the Android mobile malware explosion and Java zero-days are but a few of the greatest hi…

An IT technician working for the Swiss intelligence agency NDB simply downloaded and walked out with terabytes of data – the equivalent of ‘thousands or even millions of printed pages.’

O2 Ireland, part of the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica Europe, has admitted the loss of a backup tape. The loss happened in September 2011, O2 learned about it in the summer 2012, and is now telling its customers.

It was announced on Sunday that the Acer India website has been hacked over the weekend, and a 41 Mb file was stolen and published on RapidShare.

Microsoft is teaming up malware researchers with its online advertising fraud experts in order to tackle a rising tide of online click-fraud.

With the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) global standard for credit and debit cards poised to be adopted in the US (there is an April 2013 migration deadline), analysts at Frost & Sullivan say that credit card payments will become much more secure. …

Global hacktivist collective Anonymous is targeting Syrian websites worldwide to protest an internet blackout in that country, which was instituted Thursday in what most think is an attempt by President Bashar al-Assad to cut off communication routes f…

Almost a two-thirds of the top banking sites, one-fifth of popular open-source web app sites and a full 70% of the top 10 websites by number of visitors have absolutely no countermeasures against clickjacking attacks, even if they require a secure envi…

ChangeUp is the Symantec name for the worm known as W32/VBNA-X by Sophos and W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb by McAfee. All three companies are warning their users about an increase in detections over the last few days.