An unknown hacker – apparently protesting about terror deaths in Pakistan – has attacked the Durham Police website, forcing it to temporarily close.
First iPhone worm appears – and it’s never gonna give you up
It’s taken a while, but the first real iPhone worm has appeared, although its payload appears to be relatively benign – unless that is, you dislike Rick Astley, the 1980s pop star from Newton le-Willows in Lancashire.
Spam king Sanford Wallace owes Facebook US$10.7m
Spam king Sanford Wallace has been ordered to pay US$710.7 million to social networking company Facebook following a federal court case. Wallace is said to have compromised Facebook accounts using phishing emails, and used them to send spam to other me…
Swine flu could give internet a cold
A physical pandemic such as the swine flu (H1N1) could swamp internet service providers serving residential users, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office – and the Department Of Homeland Security doesn’t have a plan to deal wit…
Spearphishing emails target customers of ill-equipped banks.
The FBI has slammed poor security in financial institutions, after identifying a drastic rise in money being stolen from small to medium-sized businesses via spearphishing emails, it said in an intelligence note early this week.
Anti-virus vendors stony-faced at Lose/Lose
Anti-virus companies are failing to get the joke after the release of a free arcade game for the Mac that deletes the users’ files during play. Lose/Lose warns ‘victims’ that it is about to delete files on their hard drives before they begin playing, a…
Lose/Lose trojan game threat for Apple Mac users
Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users’ hard drive.
Cisco, EMC and VMware form cloud computing coalition
Cisco, EMC – the parent company to RSA Security – and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud.
Giesecke & Devrient play secure Android card
Cellular specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a memory card for Android mobile phones that is claimed to make applications running on the host Android-compliant handset ultra-secure.
Symantec warns about Google Wave invites malware
Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.