DDoS services for hire – so-called “booters” that can be hired to knock, or boot, a website offline – are making their way out of the dark shadow-world of hacker message boards and forums, instead taking payments via PayPal and advertising in mainstre…

At the Security Development Conference in San Francisco, Howard Schmidt, executive director, SAFECode, announced that the non-for-profit organization is tackling software development and engineering security with a set of free online training courses, …

The US government and MIT/JSTOR had agreed that documents concerning the prosecution of Aaron Swartz could, in part, be made public. The Swartz estate asked for the documents in full. The court has denied the estate and allowed the government and MIT/J…

A new crop of Mideast-originated cyberattacks are targeting the American energy sector, with the intent of sabotage, not just espionage.

A witness statement filed in the high court London claims that Gamma International’s FinFisher (FinSpy) covert surveillance software targeted the computer of a leading Bahraini activist who holds dual British and Bahraini citizenship.

Fraud is big business in China. Last year there were more than 170,000 cases causing losses of more than $12.5 billion. New evidence suggests this might be getting worse with increasingly sophisticated cyber fraud.

Snapchat doesn’t delete expired photos on Android phones – it merely tells the operating system to ignore them. That means they are still available for retrieval with the right forensic software.

A global gang of hackers managed to siphon off $45 million from ATMs thanks to outdated US credit card technology.

Security shouldn’t get in the way of doing business and closing sales, but many organizations are wrestling with data protection strategies that block employees’ ability to get the information they need to do their jobs. Almost half of all employees in…

A Chrome extension called Downloadify allowed DRM-free downloads from Spotify’s library of 20 million songs before remedial action by Spotify and withdrawal from the Chrome store by Google.