An associate professor in the computer science department of the University of California has developed a proof-of-concept app that uses the smartphone/tablet’s on-device accelerometer/gyroscope technology to interpret – and record – users’ keystrokes.

The number of botnets running on compromised devices increased in the first half of 2011, despite the recent takedown of a number of high-profile botnets, according to Damballa’s first half 2011 Advanced Threat Report.

Malware for smartphones and tablets is up 273% in the first half of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010, a study from G Data has shown.

Tomer Bitton, a reverse engineering specialist with Imperva, has successfully dissected the operation of the Morto worm, a malware executable that is notable for being the only worm seen to date that exploits Microsoft’s remote desktop protocol (RDP).

The arrest of Pavel Vrublevsky, the co-founder of Russia’s largest processor of online payments earlier this year, was the result of a bribe by his fellow co-founder, security researcher Brian Krebs has reported.

Over 70% of healthcare providers have suffered patient data breaches within the last 12 months, according to a survey by consulting firm Veriphyr.

An M86 Security researcher has revealed some of the practices of typosquatting – where darker elements of the internet register and populate domains/pages that are similar to high-profile major web portals, either infecting or ripping off users in the …

Cybercrime costs the world $388 billion per year, according to a new report by Symantec’s Norton unit.

PhoneGuard has announced that its DriveSafe app is now available for free on the Apple iPhone. Amongst other features, the app – which is also available for the Android and BlackBerry platforms – uses GPS tracking to temporarily lock the handset’s keyb…

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed that the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing sensitive personal information relating to the treatment of 87 patients.