As the fall-out in the Albert Gonzalez credit card hacking case – in which the card hacker was charged earlier this week with gaining unauthorized access to 130 million people’s card details from major merchants – continues, the Miami Herald has publis…

Hackers have broken into the IT system at Simon Cowell’s record label, Syco Records, stolen three unreleased Leona Lewis songs, and leaked them online.

Reports are coming in from Australia that two ISPs – aaNet and EFTel – having been subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack for the last two weeks, are taking action. The attacks have resulted in many users of the ISPs being restricte…

Research just released by PandaLabs claims that a new category of malware has arrived in the information security threats industry. Known as rogueware, the threat has, the company says, become a thriving business area for cybercriminals because the ind…

Radisson Hotels & Resorts has announced that its computer systems have been accessed without authorisation between November 2008 and May 2009. Radisson is not saying, however, whether the unauthorised incursion was caused by hackers or an internal secu…

In what security experts are calling ‘the largest ever identity theft case in modern history’, a US man has been charged with stealing data relating to 130 million payment cards.

Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the popular BlackBerry email-enabled smartphone, has released a major update to its smart card reader for the BlackBerry range.

Tesco’s Hindustan Service Centre (HSC), the Global Services division for supermarket Tesco, has deployed a unified threat management appliance from Fortinet to provide IT security across the company.

Whilst eBay and other major internet auction sites appear to have cleaned up their acts on the pirate software front, smaller sites are still letting some postings through.

The recent launch of nine high-specification mobile phones that use the Mobile Linux operating system (Limo) will add fuel to an already overheated market.