The European Union has set up a team to establish a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to counter the threat of cyber attacks against EU institutions, bodies and agencies.

Power plant control systems and smart meters are two components of the smart grid that could be particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks, says Ulf Lindqvist, program director at SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory.

Greek police have arrested an 18-year-old hacker suspected of breaking into the website of Interpol, the FBI and number of US state agencies.

A Canadian cellular phone dealer was recently ripped off by a trio of thieves in his store, resulting in the theft of thousands of dollars worth of Apple iPhones. But the manager of the Teleco store in Winnepeg managed to collate all the CCTV videos fr…

Security researcher Brian Krebs has completed his latest research into a relatively new type of crimeware called PPI – pay-per-install – where criminal gangs are now paying commissions to third parties for any malware infections they achieve.

Google has awarded researchers close to $10,000 for identifying security flaws in its Chrome web browser; version 12 fixes 15 vulnerabilities in total.

Roughly 1% of Citigroup’s 21 million North American customers’ credit card accounts were hacked, the bank has admitted.

European Union data protection regulators have called for an investigation into a Facebook feature using face-recognition software to help tag people in images on the social media website.

The high profile failure of a state-of-the-art biometrics system at a major international travel hub in Malaysia last weekend has sent shockwaves throughout the global biometrics industry.

Ocean Bank is not legally responsible for a cyber heist of $588,000 from a customer’s online account using the Zeus trojan, according to a ruling by a judge in Maine.