Spammers have their sites on Verizon Wireless customers after targeting those of AT&T Wireless earlier this month.

Darkmegi, malware that uses a kernel rootkit component to infect computers, has begun exploiting a flaw in Java to conduct drive-by attacks, according to McAfee Labs.

Khosrow Zarefarid found and reported a flaw in the Iranian POS system. He reported it, but was ignored – so he used it and hacked 3 million Iranian debit card details.

In a move that will be monitored by the UK’s music industry association (BPI), its Dutch equivalent BREIN (translates as ‘Brain’) has obtained a court injunction forcing the political party, the Pirate Party, to take down the proxy site that was allowi…

Los Alamos National Laboratory, the government lab responsible for the security of the US nuclear stockpile, recently conducted a vigorous cyber exercise involving more 100 participants from a number of federal agencies.

After suffering a series of cyberattacks, the interim Tunisian government is taking steps to solidify the security of government email accounts and websites.

The complete Facebook account of Philip Markoff, in hard copy and including friend IDs, was given by the Boston Police to the Boston Phoenix newspaper.

“For the reasons given in this Notice…”, says an FSA Decision Notice, “…the FSA has decided to impose on Mr Ian Charles Hannam a financial penalty of £450,000.”

The Dirt Jumper distributed denial of service (DDoS) bot family has evolved into over 300 varieties of bot packages, explained Curt Wilson of Arbor Networks.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published new standards for interorganizational and intersector communications, including data exchanges for critical infrastructure.