The hacktivist group Anonymous launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of major stock exchanges this week, continuing its reign of information security mischief.

Bangladeshi hackers have been hacking Indian sites, and Indian hackers have been hacking Bangladeshi sites. Now it is escalating as each side calls for ‘cyberwar’ against the other.

WikiLeaks has denounced UNESCO for refusing to allow it to speak at a conference being held at UNESCO HQ in Paris today and tomorrow. The conference is called ‘The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the World.’

A response to a freedom of information law request by the City of Rye, N.Y., has exposed the social security numbers of city employees.

The emergence of social media as a malware attack vector means that traditional anti-virus technologies are no longer sufficient: whitelisting must now be used to supplement traditional blacklisting.

A new report from the BBC asks whether BYOD spells the end of the traditional office PC. Are we in the midst of a complete cultural revolution?

Shylock is financial malware first detected by Trusteer last September and so named because of random excerpts from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice included in its binary. Trusteer now reports a significant increase in end-user infections.

Canadian telecom firm Nortel Networks, which filed for bankruptcy in 2009, was repeatedly breached by Chinese hackers for almost a decade, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“The Microsoft Store India is currently unavailable. Microsoft is working to restore access as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused”, is the note from Microsoft’s online retail outlet.

On Valentine’s Day, Microsoft is sending IT administrators a big bouquet of 21 security patches.