BAE Systems has released a major analysis of a long-standing cyber espionage campaign that has all the hallmarks of state-sponsored malware. The malware is sophisticated, covert and persistent, and seems to have been in operation since at least 2005. T…

If Facebook promised you naked videos of your friends, would you click? As much as you may be tempted to find out why your former 8th-grade computer lab partner is sending you a racy video selfie, beware: it is, of course, a scam.

Microsoft once again gave up only a small percentage of content data to law enforcement agencies that asked for it in the last six months of 2013. Only 2.32% of requests from police and other organizations globally resulted in disclosure of data regard…

The question repeatedly asked by the bitcoin community since Mt Gox announced that all of its bitcoins had been stolen by hackers, is where have they gone? While bitcoins do not reveal their owners, their use can be tracked via blockchains – and there …

Getty Images has a reputation for being a copyright maximalist. It has sued breaches of copyright, and lobbied Congress for stricter copyright legislation. So when the world’s largest collection of photos – in excess of 80 million still images – declar…

Getty Images has a reputation for being a copyright maximalist. It has sued breaches of copyright, and lobbied Congress for stricter copyright legislation. So when the world’s largest collection of photos – in excess of 80 million still images – declar…

Criminal theft of private data from public Wi-Fi hotspots is not new, but is increasing. The two most prevalent methods are traffic sniffing and man-in-the-middle attacks using a rogue, criminal-controlled hotspot. Talking to the BBC, Europol has warne…

Close on the heels of the discovery of an Android remote administration tool (RAT) known as AndroRAT – believed to be the first ever malware APK binder – comes a new variant of the idea, dubbed Dendroid.

For the JM Smucker jam and jelly company, life isn’t so sweet at the moment: attackers have managed to get into the company’s online ordering system, lifting personal information on customers. In the aftermath, the company has shuttered its online stor…

This month’s Patch Tuesday is light, containing just five bulletins. Two are marked critical and three are marked important. One of the critical bulletins addresses Internet Explorer, and is believed to include a fix for the zero-day vulnerability high…