An M86 Software researcher says his team has seen a major malicious spam campaign that is using the Cutwail botnet to bombard Facebook users with a variety of infected messages.

A leading security researcher claims to have researched a money mule – people who allow their bank accounts to become staging posts for fraudulent money obtained in online scams – that clearly knew exactly what he was doing.

A Qualys researcher has developed an open source tool that helps to negate the effects of so-called ‘slow HTTP’ DDOS attacks on internet-connected servers.

Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning of at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by root certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar.

The Medtronic Paradigm insulin pump is vulnerable to a wireless cyber attack, enabling the attacker to remotely disable the pump or manipulate the dosage, according to security researcher and diabetic Jerome Radcliffe.

Microsoft is fixing a number of bugs in recent updates to three of its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) tools, which enable developers to build security and privacy into their applications.

The coming weekend is, of course, the big summer bank holiday period when a lot of people grab a few days final holidays before the autumn. But, warns M86 Security, the bank holiday period is also one when cybercriminals are very active, so the vendor …

A Symantec research team have revealed that a new trojan – Trojan-Badlib – is being used as a malware distribution network by unknown hackers.

Maine’s Central Voter Registration (CVS) has been breached, potentially exposing personal information on close to one million registered voters.

A Trend Micro vice president of cloud security has spotted plans by the US government to look at more innovative ways to control its IT resources, and makes the interesting observation that DARPA may even be looking at controlling the US Navy’s submari…