The reputation of the ChronoPay e-money service took a battering last year when security researcher Brian Krebs revealed the backers of the service had questionable links with cybercriminal sites.

Despite a number of infected apps appearing on the official Android Market – the equivalent of the Apple iTunes store – earlier in the year, Google still appears to have an infected apps problem, with one US researcher having spotted infected bonus ver…

C-level executives are concerned about moving business-critical applications into virtual and clouds environments due to the challenges of security, reliability, availability, and performance, according to a recent survey sponsored by Symantec.

The widely reported cracking of the Skype protocol – a process that will eventually allow tech-savvy hackers to eavesdrop on Skype IP data streams, whether or not compact headers are used – could have been prevented, says StarForce Technologies, the Ru…

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.