Reports are coming in that Slavik, the author of the infamous Zeus trojan, is now offering to sell the complete source code of the malware for $100,000.

Hotmail has introduced an alias feature which Microsoft said would enable users to manage their online identities.

Criminal syndicates and drug cartels are building large-scale software pirating operations and selling that software – which is likely to contain malware – to fund their operations, warned David Finn, associate general counsel at Microsoft.

Criminal syndicates and drug cartels are building large-scale software pirating operations and selling that software – which is likely to contain malware – to fund their operations, warned David Finn, associate general counsel at Microsoft.

Hackers exploited close to twice as many vulnerabilities as usual in January, half of those being “critical”, according to Fortinet’s monthly threat landscape report.

The Federal Trade Commission is requiring three credit report resellers to strengthen their data security procedures and submit independent audits every other year for 20 years as part of a settlement with the agency.

Next week’s patch Tuesday will, says Lumension, lead to 900 million reboots of Windows machines around the world. Sadly, whilst this sounds a rather large power-draining volume of unnecessary PC actions, the reality is that it’s not that abnormal.

It looks as though Adobe’s new Reader X incorporates a number of security features that block exploits that cybercriminals have tapped in previous Reader viewer applications. Sophos is reporting that its research team has tested the viewer and found th…

The N-DEx search engine, which the FBI revealed back in 2008 as a means for US law enforcement agencies to carry out Google-style searches on multi-agency databases, is about to go live in the US.

Reports are coming in that the Egyptian government is using elements of the emergency national broadcast network to pipe tens of thousands of pro-Mubarak text messages on the network of Vodafone Egypt.