An unknown hacker – apparently protesting about terror deaths in Pakistan – has attacked the Durham Police website, forcing it to temporarily close.

Botnet controllers have been using cloud based systems such as the Google cloud platform as command and control nodes for infected PCs, said a researcher at Arbor Networks.

Spam king Sanford Wallace has been ordered to pay US$710.7 million to social networking company Facebook following a federal court case. Wallace is said to have compromised Facebook accounts using phishing emails, and used them to send spam to other me…

It’s taken a while, but the first real iPhone worm has appeared, although its payload appears to be relatively benign – unless that is, you dislike Rick Astley, the 1980s pop star from Newton le-Willows in Lancashire.

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.