With the value of bitcoins having tipped $1000, bitcoin mining is increasingly attractive; but it is also resource-intensive, and the ‘bounty’ earned by miners is dropping. One company has built a specialist data center to do the mining; another dubiou…

The University of Washington Medical Center (UW Medicine) was breached in October, with data of up to 90,000 patients of the Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center affected. No medical data was stolen, but SSNs may have b…

A prominent remote administration tool (RAT) known as Blackshades is seeing an uptick lately, despite one of its authors having been arrested last year.

One side-effect of the Snowden revelations and rumors and accusations of government-inspired backdoors in mainstream software products is increased interest in open source software (OSS). But while OSS comes with more inherent trust, it is often used w…

While it is possible – to some degree – to protect a physical cable, wireless communications are out in the open, ready to be plucked from the air. Encryption has been considered the only way to protect wireless data – until now.

It was clear last week that the European Parliament’s demand for legal redress in US courts for Europeans whose rights may have been infringed by US surveillance would be a sticking point in negotiations between the EU and US over data sharing. Now com…

Historically, AutoCAD malware is very rare, although not completely unheard of – there was an attack last year that targeted users mostly in Peru, for example. A new bug is now making the rounds, targeting these graphics and engineering platforms with …

Door-busters, Black Friday, Cyber Monday: According to Visa, 140 million people plan to shop over Thanksgiving weekend this year – a significant decrease from the 247 million who did so in 2012. Nonetheless, 37% of Americans said they will shop on Blac…

Banking trojans continue to be the scourge of the web, with Zeus, Citadel, Ramnit, Spyeye and others continuing to infect machines on a widespread basis. But a new offering has been uncovered in a Russian cybercrime forum, a malware variant that, until…

Last week, German security company Vulnerability Lab published details on the Full Disclosure mailing list about a series of bugs it had discovered in PayPal. These were a persistent payment mail encoding vulnerability; a persistent search vulnerabilit…