A physical pandemic such as the swine flu (H1N1) could swamp internet service providers serving residential users, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office – and the Department Of Homeland Security doesn’t have a plan to deal wit…

Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users’ hard drive.

Anti-virus companies are failing to get the joke after the release of a free arcade game for the Mac that deletes the users’ files during play. Lose/Lose warns ‘victims’ that it is about to delete files on their hard drives before they begin playing, a…

The FBI has slammed poor security in financial institutions, after identifying a drastic rise in money being stolen from small to medium-sized businesses via spearphishing emails, it said in an intelligence note early this week.

Cellular specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a memory card for Android mobile phones that is claimed to make applications running on the host Android-compliant handset ultra-secure.

Cisco, EMC – the parent company to RSA Security – and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud.

M86, the web and messaging security products vendor, has acquired business internet security specialist Finjan for an undisclosed sum of money. The move boosts M86’s payroll to a shade more than 300 staff.

IT security vendor Symantec has uncovered a trojan that uses the Facebook social networking portal to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server

The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s – and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years – is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa’s operation there has announced.

Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.