How easy is it to steal an identity on Facebook, the popular social networking portal? Very, as Sophos Asia-Pacific discovered recently when it carried out the Facebook equivalent of a honeypot hacker trap.

The Cameroon ‘.CM’ domain tops the list of the riskiest top-level domains in terms of cybersecurity, according to a report from McAfee.

Online criminals are stepping up their campaign to infectInternet users with the Zeus trojan, according to new research published by Atlanta-based managed security firm SecureWorks. Email campaigns in particular are on the rise, the company has said.

Gridsure, the security specialist that has developed a highly secure pictorial authentication alternative to PIN / passwords, has received a major award in France.

CARE International is challenging the IT industry to its 3 Peaks Challenge raising money to help fight poverty.

Anti-malware firm Prevx has apologized to Microsoft after admitting that the ‘black screen of death’ – a condition that renders Windows unusable after bootup – was not caused by faulty system patches after all.

The inevitable H1N1 flu trojan attacks have started. Yesterday, McAfee detected a new H1N1-related spam campaign, spoofing emails from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and asking victims to fill out a ‘vaccination profile’ as part of a state-wide f…

The latest monthly malware chart from BitDefender claims to show that the largest risk to computer users is currently Trojan.AutorunINF.Gen, a generic family of trojan malware abusing the autorun feature in Windows.

The federal government is tightening up hiring policies for cybersecurity professionals by launching cybersecurity competency models for its employees.

After several weeks of rumour, IBM is reported to be acquiring Guardium, the enterprise database security specialist, for $225 million.