Most organisations acknowledge they are part of the critical national infrastructure (CNI) and believe a cyber attack could disrupt their country’s mission-critical systems in the next two years, but are not well prepared for it, a study has revealed.

The overall risk on the web is rising, with 6.2% of the 27 million websites surveyed by McAfee posing a security risk in 2010, up from 5.8% of the websites surveyed last year, according to the security firm’s Mapping the Mal Web report.

Last month’s spam attack on the LinkedIn business social networking site’s members was one of the largest attacks of its type in history, according to the latest monthly spam report from Kaspersky Lab.

Reports that the Avalanche gang, now the world’s most prolific phishing group, have diversified their operations over from conventional phishing emails to distributing the ZeuS Trojan, is another sign that hackers are becoming incredibly sophisticated,…

Targeted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec’s latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.

Targetted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec’s latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has challenged former SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker to testify in court over an IP theft suit brought by Oracle against SAP.

While Forrester Research predicts the cloud security market will grow to $1.5bn by 2015, cloud adoption is outpacing security controls, a global survey has revealed.

The Dutch National Crime Squad’s High Tech Crime Team has taken down the Bredolab botnet that had infected at least 30 million computers worldwide.

In what prosecutors are claiming is a precedent-setting case, a pair of pay-TV pirates have been given lengthy prison sentences and ordered to pay approaching two million euro to Sky TV’s German operation.