China’s cybersecurity market is set to explode, growing from a valuation of just $1.8 billion last year to $50 billion by 2020, according to new research from GlobalData. The big 44.7% growth curve – which the firm says is an anomaly on the global stag…

A new report, drawing on 18 million observations of P2P activity on BitTorrent file sharing, analyzes what locations are downloading which music files – legally or illegally.

An aircraft in flight has successfully transmitted quantum encryption keys to a ground station, bringing closer the time when satellites can be used to provide a theoretically (allegedly) secure communications network.

Asked by the White House to reconsider whether the infamous Mohammad video clip is in violation of its terms of service, Google has replied that it is not. Although it is blocking the clip in Egypt, Libya, Indonesia and India, this, says Google, is in …

AlienVault has been tracking the PlugX remote access trojan for some months, and following extensive detective work has now uncovered enough information to name the person behind it.

Yesterday the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ – one of the UK’s three intelligence agencies) announced that it has set up “a new academic Research Institute to improve understanding of the science behind the growing Cyber Security threa…

Fave hacker toolkit BlackHole has gotten an upgrade. Version 2.0 of the exploit kit is now available to mine security holes for opportunities to infect machines with slew of malicious programs. It adds a host of new features, at the same pricing as bef…

Microsoft digital crime investigators have purchased several PCs from stores in China, finding that 20% were already infected with Nitol botnet.

In an effort to align its security and protection portfolio with the workloads and applications they protect, Microsoft is eliminating several of its Forefront products.

Anonymous has rebuked the media, effectively accusing it of being Indecisive Dave – the Fast Show character (Brilliant in the US) who continually changed his opinion to agree with the most recent comment he heard.