A leading US academic will shortly publish a paper highlighting potential security problems with the WebView platform, the coding system used to create many of the most popular Google Android apps.

Infosecurity got a chance to sit down with John Colley, managing director EMEA for (ISC)², at last week’s RSA Europe, and we learned that one of his current aims is to encourage new members – who do not currently satisfy the membership criteria – to si…

The indictments of 111 people in New York for operating a massive credit card fraud ring is just the “tip of the iceberg” when it comes to credit card fraud, judged Paul Rodgers, chairman of UK payment card industry group Vendorcom.

Commtouch is reporting that a new DLL hijacking technique has been spotted being used by cybercriminals in the wild, even though the use of DLL loading has been falling by the wayside in recent times.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has failed to notify close to 32,000 people that their social security numbers were mistakenly disclosed on the SSA’s death master file, a public database that provides information on deceased US citizens as a d…

Hard on the heels of last week’s arrest of more than 100 people suspected of being part of a $13 million card crime ring, a leading security researcher has analysed the shady shipping centres that take a pivotal role in these types of frauds.

According to Ira Winkler, president and acting CEO of the Internet Security Advisory Group, social engineering – as a means of hacking people – is actually a far wider term than many people are aware of.

The FBI has arrested a Florida man in an email hacking probe, codenamed “Operation Hackerazzi”, that involved disclosure of personal information and photos of Hollywood celebrities, including Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera, and Scarlett Johansson.

The ingenuity of cybercriminals has reached a new level, with a leading IT security researcher reporting on the re-tasking of a mini-MP3 player as the mainstay of an ATM skimmer.

It appears that hackers are taking advantage of the interest in Netflix – the California-based IP streaming firm that offers services on specific smartphones in North and South America – by releasing a general Android edition of the software that runs …