Hacktivists seem to have learned a lot from the WikiLeaks/Anonymous attacks seen in recent months, as an automated DDoS attack has reportedly frozen access to BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy web portal.

One of the features that Apple may reveal later today when it – as is widely expected, launches the iPad 2 – will be an Android-like pattern lock screen for iOS, the operating system of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Complaints lodged with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC³) totaled 303,809 in 2010, the second highest level in the center’s 10-year history.

Google has blamed a bug in a storage software update for weekend interruptions to its Gmail service in which thousands of users lost e-mail contacts and folders.

The simmering row between security experts and white hat hackers over so-called cracking contests has boiled over, with the organisers of the Pwn2Own competition – which opens on 9 March in Vancouver – defending their role in the industry.

Police in Essex are urging iPhone users to install and register a ‘Find my iPhone’ app on their mobiles, following the successful recovery of a woman’s phone late last month using the software.

A new piece of malware targeting the Mac has been identified by security firm Sophos, as the developer believed to have created a similar trojan for Windows denies having any hand in the Mac-based version.

Information security testing needs to be done in a real-world environment, tested by the most technically advanced minds in the world. According to the Ernst & Young information security services team, they have it all under one roof at their Advanced …

Two Google Android viruses have been spotted circulating and infecting users’ smartphones in the wild. The viruses are potentially nasty because one – SW.SecurePhone – uploads data to remote servers from the users’ handset, while the other – SW.Qieting…

A 26-year-old man from Houston plead guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges last week in a case involving the 2008–09 breach of a Minnesota-based company. In a separate incident, however, he will apparently avoid criminal charges for accessing two NA…