It seems that hackers sympathetic to the government cause in Malaysia are silencing websites that criticize the government using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack methodologies.

After an intensive internet campaign over the last nine months, Avast Software is claiming that its free IT security software of the same name has topped the 130 million user mark, an increase of a third since the start of the year.

Reports are coming in that the Iraqi resistance group claiming to be behind the `here you have’ malware may be located in Spain, as a video posted on YouTube, from the profile of a 26-year-old apparently living in Spain, is claiming the cyberattack com…

Adobe has announced it will release security patches for the latest zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in its Reader and Acrobat products.

UK organisations are losing 300 000 hours and £2bn a year through IT downtime, according to a report by CA Technologies.

European organisations are losing more than £500 000 per year because of the poor performance of cloud-based apps.

Money mule soliciting has always been associated with the less tech-savvy amongst the internet user base, mainly on the basis that such programmes prey on the greedy and gullible, but now it seems that soliciting is getting very professional.

Hewlett-Packard is widely reported to be close to buying intrusion detection security software company ArcSight for $1.5bn.

A hacker who claims to be behind the “Here you have” email worm that clogged up corporate networks last week, says it was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool.

The Information Commissioners’ Office (ICO) is investigating FIFA, the international football authority, over allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans – including their passport data – were accessed by one or more members of staff and th…