“The Russian shadow economy is an economy of scale, one that is service oriented and that has become a kleptocracy wherein crony capitalism has obtained a new lease on life in cyberspace,” says a new report into the cybercriminal Russian underground.

The cyberwar between the US/Israel and Iran is one of words as well as computer code. It is widely thought that Iranian hackers are behind the recent spate of attacks against US banks, and that the DDoS attack against HSBC was a specific Iranian hacker…

Last week it emerged that the William Faulkner estate was suing Sony over the distribution of the Woody Allen movie, ‘Midnight in Paris.’ On the very next day it launched a second suit against Northrop Grumman and the Washington Post.

We have nothing to lose by offering bug bounty rewards, Jeremiah Grossman, Founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security told the audience at Hacker Halted in Miami, 29th October 2012.

The 12th ICS Cyber Security Conference was held Oct 22-25 at the Old Dominion University’s Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center – but did not quite go to plan…

As public demonstrations against austerity measures grow in Greece, and support for far-right organizations such as the Golden Dawn increases, Anonymous hacks into the Ministry of Finance and releases confidential documents just days before the governm…

Opening the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, Florida, 29th October 2012, Jav Bavisi, president and CEO of the EC-Council, told the audience that the post-PC era of computing requires a fundamental shift in the security industry’s tactics.

NullCrew is a hacking team that bears some similarities to the defunct LulzSec: it has sympathy with Anonymous, but is separate from Anonymous. It does, however, operate with none of the taunting flamboyance that probably led to the downfall of LulzSec.

Taxpayers in South Carolina have been told of a security breach involving the theft of millions of social security numbers and hundreds of thousands of debit and credit card numbers. None of the SSNs were encrypted and 16,000 of the bank cards were sim…

An analysis of conversations in one of the largest known hacker forums – with around 250,000 members – has revealed that SQL-injection and DDoS are the subjects of most interest to up-and-coming wannabe hackers.