Following yesterday’s news of hacks against AMD and TBN, hacking group r00tbeer security has struck again, twice – this time against Dutch electronics giant Philips and the UK’s Student Room.

“Due to routine maintenance, AMD’s web ite is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience. This area will be back online as soon as possible.” That’s the notice on AMD’s blog following a hack and data release by the hacking team known a…

Apple was responding to French iOS hacker pod2g’s announcement that he “found a flaw in iOS that [he considers] to be severe”, and that he is “pretty confident that other security researchers already know about this hole, and I fear some pirates as wel…

Manchester, UK based NCC Group has acquired US-based mobile security testing specialist Intrepidus for £7.1m. It is NCC’s ninth acquisition in the network testing and software security space and the third in North America.

Hulu, an online video content provider, had attempted to get a class action against its practice of passing users’ viewing habits to a marketing company dismissed. In June, a California judge tossed six of the seven claims, but deferred ruling on the s…

The task faced by Cyber Security Challenge UK is to fill the skills gap – there are simply not enough security specialists coming through the system. The organization’s latest innovation is a new 5-day summer camp to be held at Lancaster university ne…

Anti-virus companies and researchers are warning about a new targeted and destructive virus variously known as Shamoon and Disttrack. It seems to be targeted at the oil industry – and it wipes PCs.

Google has announced plans to hand out bonuses, in addition to its existing bug bounties, to researchers who report particularly troublesome flaws in its Chrome browser.

At least three dozen members of the Atlanta police force provided personal information to scammers who posed as agents selling insurance benefits.

NASA’s inspector general (IG) is criticizing the space agency for not being ready to combat advanced persistent threats (APTs).