US and UK authorities are tightening their control of the internet in their fight against copyright pirates and counterfeiters. But their moves may reverse the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty, and open the way to censorship of on…

The hacker who took down the WikiLeaks site just hours before it was set to publish leaked US documents used a relatively small-scale, application-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor …

Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has confirmed that the Stuxnet computer worm affected centrifuges in the country’s uranium enrichment program.

IBM has launched an apprenticeship scheme for 15 school leavers in a bid to develop its current and future workforce.

A G20 country will be hit by major cyber attack by 2015, Garter predicts.

UK-based defense firm BAE Systems has agreed to acquire stratsec.net, an Australian cybersecurity consulting firm, for around $23 million.

Reporting on the Stuxnet malware has reached new heights – or lows, depending on your point of view. According to David Harley, a security research fellow with Eset, the Sky News video report on the malware of late last week was more ‘planet fantasy’ t…

Entrepreneurs Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch are to launch rival publications exclusively for Apple’s iPad.

Although it was thought that the Bredolab spamming botnet was brought down fully as part of a Dutch takedown last month, it appears that elements of the botnet have continued until this week.

PhishMe, a provider of information security training software, is offering a free version of its “phishing game” to educate online shoppers about the increased threat from phishing attacks on Cyber Monday.