Security pioneer John McAfee is back in the headlines with a claim that he organized a shadowy group of personal espionage operatives and marshaled keylogging spyware to collect data on top government officials and other powerful people in his adopted …

In the wake of the revelation that browser vendors Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have blocked two faulty SSL certificates generated by Turkish Certificate Authority third-party TURKTRUST, the company has responded that there was no attack, fraud or oth…

A report in IndyMedia UK on 4 January 2013 claimed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had been arrested by Scotland Yard officers while visiting a private medical clinic close to the Ecuadorian embassy. It was a hoax.

A new active attack using phony Google digital certificates accidentally issued by a Turkish certificate authority (CA) known as TURKTRUST is making the rounds, affecting Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer users.

The ICS-CERT Monthly Monitor for the last quarter of 2012 provides news and alerts for industrial control systems and infrastructure companies – and describes two particular attacks on a power generation facility and an electric utility.

The ‘lack of public disclosure reflects lack of government-wide standards’ warns the Daily Yomiuri. It is, it suggests, symptomatic of a wider malaise in Japan’s attitude towards cyber defense.

Last autumn the US banking world was shaken by sustained, heavy and effective DDoS attacks that peaked at 70 Gbps – a traffic load capable of overwhelming the majority of network infrastructures. More of the same is expected in 2013.

Beware when looking for help with that new Chromebook: Google Chrome users visiting Google support pages could be vulnerable to a clickjacking technique that could lay bare their e-mail addresses, profile pictures, first and last names, and other infor…