UK web users are ignoring basic online fraud-prevention measures in their quest for the ultimate holiday bargain, research has revealed.

The latest research from SecureWorks reports that India came top in its security world cup, beating the Netherlands, Germany and Brazil in terms of the lowest number of computers originating cyber-attacks from within its borders.

Microsoft’s investigators have caught 25 UK computer shops selling illegal software in the past six months.

Reports have been coming in overnight that a growing number of iTunes’ accounts have been hacked, with unauthorised charges appearing on user accounts, as well as a ‘take-over’ of a number of apps on the iTunes store apparently by a Vietnamese software…

There has been spate of high-profile Facebook, Twitter and other social networking account hacks recently, the most recent of which was the compromise of the Facebook and Twitter accounts of Conservative MP Therese Coffey.

Apple has denied a design fault in the antennae of the iPhone 4 and has blamed instead the formula used to calculate signal strength.

Danish security tracking company Secunia has reported that around half of third-party software applications are failing to use two key Windows security features developed by Microsoft.

Kaspersky Lab has patented technology in the US which it claims allows the potential scale of malware epidemics to be predicted accurately to stop them from spreading.

Danish security tracking company Secunia has reported that around half of third-party software applications are failing to use two key Windows security features developed by Microsoft.

The latest monthly threat landscape report from IT security vendor Fortinet asserts that obfuscated Javascript attacks are starting to hit internet users again.