Adobe has announced that it will be issuing a critical update for its Flash and Air products tomorrow – but isn’t telling us what the vulnerabilities are.

The issue of data leaks have been in the news constantly these last 12 months, with a litany of companies hit by publicly embarrassing leaks, losses and thefts.

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.