The US government has expelled Venezuelan diplomat Livia Acosta Noguera for allegedly assisting the Iranian government in a plot to launch cyber attacks against US nuclear power plants.

Typosquatting has led to a spam site becoming one of the highest ranking sites on the internet, according to Alexa.

“I would not be surprised to see the demise of email by the end of this decade.” This surprising but potentially realistic statement was made by Graeme Codrington, a futurist at the TomorrowToday consultancy.

Attacks against endpoints are costing the average organization around $470,000 annually, according to a survey sponsored by Symantec.

Opposition to SOPA and PIPA (the anti online piracy acts) continues to grow. Net Coalition reports on Al Gore’s reservations, while also threatening its own internet blackout.

Pastebin.com, a favorite venue for hacktivists, was shut down twice this week by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Google has fixed three high-risk vulnerabilities in the latest version of its Chrome browser.

The Vietnamese Communication Security Agency has fined three individuals for stealing personal information on millions of people and selling it online, the first time fines have been issued for such activity in the country.

Ramnit is not a new worm, as it was first reported back in April 2010. Last summer it evolved into financial malware. Now its developers are specifically targeting Facebook users.

BAE Systems Detica has become a strategic partner of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre. This is a special relationship reserved for organizations that have provided a real contribution toward CEOP’s role in protecting children …