Imagine a world where sensitive information can be extracted from a brain-computer interface via electronics that quite literally pick your brain for passwords. It may sound like science fiction, but a new experiment into the space has revealed a poten…

Dr Web, the Russian anti-malware company that did much to expose the growth of the Flashback botnet, has found the first Linux/OSX cross-platform trojan – which it calls BackDoor.Wirenet.1

A new Java exploit has been discovered. While not yet widespread, it is in the wild, works with all major browsers, is potentially cross-platform – and has no available patch.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a report on ‘Cyber Incident Reporting in the EU’ and has found implementation gaps: “incidents remain undetected or not reported.”

Hacker collective Team GhostShell is boasting that it has breached more than one million user records from 100 corporate and public affairs websites across a variety of industry segments, and leaked them online.

File-sharing has long had a reputation for being a veritable petri dish for viruses and/or credential or identity theft, but web-storage and sharing provider Dropbox is now offering two-factor authentication to thwart would-be hackers.

Victorinox, maker of the Swiss Army knife, has abruptly discontinued its security offering for the Swiss Army-branded line of portable USB memory sticks.

In what many would consider a bizarre case in Australia, an accused man says the evidence against him was obtained illegally when an iPad owner electronically tracked a stolen iPad via GPS to his property.

Senator Mark Leno’s SB 1434, the Location Privacy Bill, has been passed by the California Assembly with a bipartisan vote of 63-11. Having now passed both chambers of the state legislature, the bill is headed towards Governor Jerry Brown.

Earlier this month Google made some fundamental changes to the way in which Google Wallet operates. The main difference is that the ‘active’ part of payment has been shifted from the handheld device to Google’s servers; that is, the cloud.