Following the arrest of Eric Eoin Marques last week, websites in the darknet hidden services began to go down. A piece of javascript malware was found and posted to the internet. Researchers are now wondering if this is the first live sample of the FBI…

On Friday the Irish High Court denied bail to Mr Eric Eoin Marques, arrested the day before on an extradition warrant issued in Maryland charging him with distributing and promoting child pornography on the internet.

The hacker known as Guccifer, who makes a habit of hacking the rich and powerful – the ‘Illuminati’ in his own terms – has struck again, this time forcing former US Secretary of State Colin Powell to deny an affair.

Just over a week ago Symantec published a note on a new spam bot that it was and is currently investigating. A Swiss researcher, however, was already on it, having trapped the first instance in his sandnet two days earlier.

The Comfoo trojan has been in continuous development since at least 2006. It has more than 200 variants and has been used in at least 64 different campaigns, including the RSA SecurID breach in 2010 – but little has been known about it.

Two different presentations at Black Hat Las Vegas on August 2nd 2013 called new attention to the risks posed by smart TVs increasingly found in homes and offices around the world. Researchers demonstrated how vulnerabilities in these systems can be us…

Self-promotion through social media is the key to improving your visibility in the information security industry Javvad Malik told an engaged audience at BSides Las Vegas on August 1st 2013.

A new community database has been launched by Verizon to help bridge the uncertainty gap in data breach information: what we know and what we need to know. Based on VERIS, it is designed to facilitate the secure sharing of incident information for the …

The Guardian has released the latest of its Edward Snowden leaks – NSA training material for a system called XKeyscore that allows analysts to search through vast databases of emails, online chats and browsing histories.

Responsible zero-day vulnerability disclosure is on the increase, according to Brian Gorenc, manager of HP’s Zero Day Initiative.