A security researcher tweeted yesterday, “Blackhole exploit kit author ‘Paunch’ and his partners arrested in Russia.” There is no further corroboration, and nothing yet from the Russian authorities; but some circumstantial evidence suggests it may be t…

The UK’s latest attempt to launch a national police police force as elite and feared as the FBI came into being Monday. Its purpose, says home secretary Theresa May, is “the relentless disruption of organised criminals.”

Current European data protection laws require that multinationals abide by the national data protection law in each country in which they operate. This is burdensome. To ease this burden, the proposed General Data Protection Regulation includes a one-s…

Wireless hardware specialist Belkin and Kaprica are tackling Android security with a mobile malware detection scheme that is as simple as plugging in a handset to charge. The Skorpion USB charger is designed to perform a deep scan of a connected device…

Ever since the extent of government surveillance of the internet became known through the Snowden leaks, public and commercial interest in virtual private networks (VPNs) to both bypass internet blockades and provide user privacy has escalated.

Last summer an FOI request showed that the FBI had abandoned an investigation into TSChan, allegedly a child pornography site on the Darknet, since “because everyone… connected to the TOR Network is anonymous, there is not currently a way to trace th…

Legions of vendor reports have highlighted the sheer pervasiveness of Android malware: that there are now 1 million samples in the wild; and that 99% of all mobile malware is Android-related. Google however says that the actual threat has been vastly o…

Adobe has been hacked. Source code for numerous Adobe products including Acrobat and ColdFusion has been stolen. Customer IDs and passwords have been accessed; and card details for 2.9 million customers stolen.

When it comes to industrial systems, manufacturers believe they’re doing well in terms of cybersecurity, even as data breaches are actually increasing. In an era of increasing cyber-espionage by state-sponsored attackers, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) s…

On Monday of this week it was reported that listening devices had been found in the former Nortel campus – due to be occupied by the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND). DND has since denied this; but the accusation remains.