Stingray is a US law enforcement spoof cell tower used to track the location of mobile phones. Snoopy is a project conducted by London-based Sensepost Research Labs that does similar and much more with any WIFI-enabled device. Now Snoopy has gone airbo…

EC3, the cyber branch of Europol, has dismantled a Polish gang involved in online auction fraud. The gang would offer electronic items such as Apple computers, but deliver anything from a brick to items of fruit and vegetables. The scam involved Ebay a…

Following a nationwide ban on Twitter last week, thousands of internet denizens have been working successfully to get around the moratorium. Now, Turkey has taken steps to thwart circumvention efforts that will result in IP address filtering – but it c…

In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations and allegations that top ISPs and tech companies were complicit in the mass surveillance of the American people by the NSA, there has been an avalanche of transparency reports detailing law enforcement reques…

At the RSA conference 2014 in San Francisco, Tim Rains, director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, spoke to Infosecurity editor Eleanor Dallaway about the security threat landscape in the Middle East.

A new bot with the name Zorenium has landed in the criminal underground, with the ability to target Apple iOS devices like iPhone and iPad. It’s not widely known, nor is it widely detectable.

When Brian Krebs learned of a private MasterCard warning being circulated to banks, he challenged the DMV – and only then did it issue a public statement that it was indeed investigating a potential security issue.

ISACA is taking steps against fraudulent security credentialing with the introduction of digital badges for individuals who have completed one of the group’s training processes.

Syrian politics are having big ramifications on the web this week. First up, the Syrian Electronic Army has released what it alleges are hacked invoices from Microsoft that document months of transactions between Microsoft’s Global Criminal Compliance …

The Google blacklist and malware warnings are handy and give an air of authority – but sometimes the algorithm gets it wrong. Researchers have discovered that one of the web’s top porn providers, beeg.com, which has an Alexa ranking of 332, is currentl…