The days of having your credit or debit card refused – and then the retailer having to phone for authorisation because of fraud worries – may soon be over, as Visa Europe has introduced real-time scoring to its risk detection platform.

A gang of four men have been sentenced to 13 years in prison for their role in using the PSP2-BBB trojan to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds from UK bank accounts.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has spent $45 million on information security for its classified computer network in the past eight years, but it is still inadequate, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.

Reports are coming in of an important arrest in connection with the now-infamous Zbot group of trojan malware.

In what some communication security experts are calling a classic data theft resulting from one or more rogue employees, T-Mobile has admitted its staff sold private details of customers to a third party for use when selling mobile phone deals.

Sophos has warned internet users against buying Tamiflu online, the drug designed to help stop people getting infected by the H1N1 virus also known as the swine flu.

Microsoft has discovered a zero-day denial of service vulnerability in the server message block (SMB) protocol used in Windows 7.

Unified threat management firm Astaro is offering a free version of its UTM product, focusing on firewall functions and targeting SMBs.

David Guyatt, one of the co-founders of MIMEsweeper, the IT security company acquired by Baltimore Technologies and later, Clearswift, has a new IT security company, Osirium.

PandaLabs, the malware labs division of Panda Security, has encountered a fake Facebook page designed to steal passwords from users of the social networking portal.