Hell hath no fury like an upset cracker, it seems, as the tidal wave of apparent supporters of George Hotz appear to be targeting Sony in an unprecedented hackathon.

Reports are coming in that the BlackHole exploit kit, a pivotal piece of malware in the same league as Zeus, has joined the infamous malware in being offered for free on darkware forums.

It appears that, despite President Obama recently going on national TV in the US to tell everyone that Osama bin Laden is dead, Facebook users are being lured to a credential-stealing set of web pages by a tweet referencing a ‘CNN report’ that the head…

Sony’s So-net Entertainment admitted that its customer rewards site was hacked and that customers’ email accounts were compromised and redeemable gift points stolen.

The vulnerability identified by NSS Labs researchers in Siemens’ programmable logic controllers (PLCs) is only a part of larger security issues, according to NSS Labs president Rick Moy.

Trident Media Guard, the French company tasked with monitoring internet piracy under the country’s ‘three strikes’ rule, is reported to have taken legal action against the hacker that attacked its servers.

F-Secure claims that Sony’s servers have been hacked yet again and its systems are hosting a live phishing site.

Researchers in Australia have staged a live internet telephony crack which they claim shows the security vulnerabilities of using a Cisco internet phone.

Researchers with the American University of Beirut are reported to be working on enhancing previous methods of uniquely identifying users by the speed and rhythm with which their passwords are entered.

Browser security specialist Trusteer claims that a recent SpyEye-driven attack on Verizon highlights a new strategy by cybercriminals, who are using financial malware to specifically target online merchant’s websites.