Apple exposed encryption passwords of FileVault users in its Lion OS X 10.7 security update, says researcher.

South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has teamed with Australia’s Internet Industry Association to develop a new voluntary industry code of practice to improve cybersecurity for end users.

Almost one-in-four computers in the UK is infected – and the UK is one of the least infected countries in the world, says the new PandaLabs report released today.

US federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged four Irish and British men for helping with the breach of the US security analysis firm Stratfor last year.

Hackers have breached some of the top secret UK Ministry of Defence computer systems, the military’s head of cybersecurity has revealed.

It was only a matter of time before one hacktivist group or another would react to the UK court-ordered ISP block on The Pirate Bay.

A major plank of both the Conservative and LibDem election campaigns was to ‘roll back the database state’ and curtail invasive bureaucratic surveillance. But has the Coalition achieved this? And what about the proposed communications monitoring bill?…

The DDoS weapon of choice for Anonymous activists, the Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC), was downloaded from the internet 381,961 times during 2011. That number has already been exceeded in 2012, with daily downloads averaging more than 3400.

GFI Software researchers have identified 20 Android applications on the Google Play marketplace that lure users with offers of “free” products or money to fill out surveys.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new protocol for securely communicating with biometric sensors over wired and wireless networks using web services.