PBX hacking – the act of cracking into a company PBX and selling long distance/international telephone time to third parties at a discount – is alive and well, despite several years of being out of the news.

There has been a surge in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against media sites in Belarus, something that could signal an escalation in cyber warfare in the region.

The perils of giving companies your payment card details and failing to realise the likelihood of those details being used when subscription renewal times comes around have raised their ugly head again, with Symantec and McAfee being ordered to pay $37…

The anonymity of cybercafe users in India is being severely curtailed, in a bid to stamp out illegal, fraudulent and terrorist usage of this popular method of gaining internet access.

An unencrypted laptop containing details on 109 000 pension schemes members with UK pension funds service provider, The Pensions Trust, has been stolen from a third-party office in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

Customers of the Commonwealth Bank in Australia are being targeted by a new breed of phishers, who seem intent on scamming them out of their e-banking and payment card details.

The British Computer Society (BCS) has linked up with the Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) to launch a professional code of best practice when handling personal data.

A worm on Twitter is tricking users into giving up their user details at the same time as redirecting victims to a dating website where the aggregate number of views result in affiliate revenue.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released two reports on how and if Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) could improve the resilien…

Police in Victoria, Australia are investigating a potentially major security incident in which the stolen personal details of thousands of credit and debit card holders from Australia, Germany and the UK were posted to a blogging site and auto-indexed …