Here’s a lesson in IT contingency planning, courtesy of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway network company, whose IT systems – including station indicator boards, electronic ticketing, self-service counter tickets and Internet pages – all went off line …

Overclockers.co.uk (OCUK), an online computer hardware reseller firm, have announced they are placing a bounty of £10 000 on the heads of hackers behind a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on their web site earlier in the month.

The UK government’s Infosec Training Paths and Competencies (ITPC) scheme is to transfer to the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) with effect from 1 April 2009.

According to his lawyer, Karen Todner, Gary McKinnon, who may be facing extradition after confessing to hacking into US military computers, was told yesterday that the UK High Court would delay his hearing until the director for public prosecutions had…

Two new botnets have emerged in the past few weeks, and at least one shows signs of being an upgrade to a previous botnet that wreaked havoc in the wild.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California are suing the FBI over computer searches conducted at two activist organizations’ offices.

Approximately one quarter of stalking or harassment cases in the US include an element of cyberstalking, according to a report from the Bureau of Justice statistics this week.

The ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip is creating a widening online cyber-conflict, according to reports last week. US Government web sites are the latest among hundreds that have reportedly been defaced by activists protesting …

More evidence has appeared of the spread of a network work based on the RPC vulnerability that was found in Microsoft Windows in October. The network worm Downadup has failed to gain much traction on the open internet, according to anti-virus firm F-Se…

Researchers put the final nail in the coffin of the MD5 encryption algorithm this week after using 200 PS3 consoles to fake a real-world SSL certificate.