Earlier in the week, many consumers experienced a big spike in email spam volume – messages targeting containing financial malware that’s familiar from the not-too-distant past.

The US is once again the world’s spammiest nation, topping the 2013 “Spampionship” league table published by Sophos.

When it comes to banks, Barclay’s arguably has one of the highest profiles in the world, thanks to its sponsorship of the English Premier League. But it should be known for something else as well: it came in first in security functionality in Forrester…

A top secret presentation by GCHQ at a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV shows that the hitherto unknown GCHQ Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group launched a DDoS attack (called Rolling Thunder) on the IRC communications channels used by Anonymous …

Target. Neiman Marcus. Michaels. The retail sector continues to crop up with point-of-sale (PoS)-led data breaches. But a new security breach affecting 14 Marriott, Holiday Inn, Westin, Renaissance and Radisson properties demonstrates that hospitality …

The Chewbacca keylogging malware has been spotted in the wild, and we don’t meet on Yavin 4 or Endor: it’s been uncovered as part of a global point-of-sale (PoS) malware campaign right here on Planet Earth.

But not their passwords. Last Friday a French publication provided details on the data stolen from French mobile operator, Orange. The breach occurred on 16 January, and involved the loss of names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and ‘househo…

Following its involvement in the complaint to the European Court over the UK government’s use of mass surveillance via GCHQ, Germany’s Chaos Computer Club has now filed a complaint with the Federal Prosecutor General’s office against the German federal…