The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have admitted that 33 public sector workers across 30 local authorities have accessed the Customer Information System (CIS) “without business justification”.

Against a backdrop of the increasing use of internet telephony (aka voice over IP) by criminals as a way of avoiding wiretaps, the European Union has thrown its weight behind research into how to monitor internet telephony calls on a cost-effective basis.

Social networking giant Facebook has back-tracked on a controversial decision to retain users’ information, even when they close their accounts.

Timothy J. Johns, Jeremy A. Frazier and Tony Acreus, all in their early twenties, were arrested while using stolen credit card numbers to make purchases in Leon County, Tallahassee.

Romanian hackers are reported to be targeting the web sites of several IT security vendors.

The Department of Energy has slammed Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for lax cybersecurity following the revelation last week that 69 computers are missing from the nuclear laboratory.

The ingenuity of malware distributors has reached new levels – of depths – depending on your point of view.

As more details of the Kaspersky web site hack came to light yesterday, the same hacking forum posted details of a similar SQL injection attack, this time on a Portugese reseller for anti-malware firm BitDefender.

FraudTip, a Web security portal, claims that an internet scam is defrauding around 71 000 travellers every month by the simple expedient of routing internet users to fraudulent versions of popular booking sites.

The FBI is investigating a $9m large-scale ATM fraud using cards cloned from US card processor RBS Worldpay.