Police in Essex are urging iPhone users to install and register a 'Find my iPhone' app on their mobiles, following the successful recovery of a woman's phone late last month using the software.
A new piece of malware targeting the Mac has been identified by security firm Sophos, as the developer believed to have created a similar trojan for Windows denies having any hand in the Mac-based version.
Information security testing needs to be done in a real-world environment, tested by the most technically advanced minds in the world. According to the Ernst & Young information security services team, they have it all under one roof at their Advanced Security Centre in Houston, Texas.
Two Google Android viruses have been spotted circulating and infecting users’ smartphones in the wild. The viruses are potentially nasty because one – SW.SecurePhone – uploads data to remote servers from the users' handset, while the other – SW.Qieting – auto-forwards messages to a remote number.
A 26-year-old man from Houston plead guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges last week in a case involving the 2008–09 breach of a Minnesota-based company. In a separate incident, however, he will apparently avoid criminal charges for accessing two NASA servers.
The theft of specialist equipment has prevented thousands of users from accessing the Vodafone network.
A Spanish IT security research firm has spotted a man-in-the-browser trojan that injects HTML in all of the mainstream Web browsers and uses rootkit techniques to hide its presence.
It used to be a reflection of the maturity of the computer software marketplace that applications went through beta testing to iron out bugs. Now it seems the same process applies to malware, as Sophos is warning users to be on alert for a beta test of a new Mac OS X trojan.
Following closely on the heels of its first Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule fine, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has doled out a $1 million fine against Massachusetts General Hospital for a data breach involving 192 patients begin treated f...
Reports are coming in that a cybercriminal gang - with members who were involved in the Storm and Waledac worms - have raked in more than $150 million promoting unlicensed online pharmacies between May 2007 and June 2010.
The Internet Systems Consortium has published an advisory and an update for the Bind domain name system software versions 9.7.1 to 9.7.2-P3.
The latest 'victim' of USB stick loss, Cambridgeshire County Council, has been given an electronic dressing down by the Information Commisoners Office for what the regulator calls a clear breach of the Data Protection Act.
Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP were among the oil companies targeted by hackers working through internet servers in China, say US reports.
Melih Abdulhayoglu, founder of Comodo, is never afraid to make some bold claims or call out the big boys of the anti-virus industry. Once again, the company’s chief executive did not fail to disappoint when he sat down with Infosecurity at last week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.
The Libyan government could pull the plug on the country's internet as protests sweep the country.
The Libyan government could pull the plug on the country's internet as protests sweep the country.
The self-styled Iranian Cyber Army was able to hack into the US government-funded Voice of America website and transform the home page into a pro-Iranian banner that instructed the US government to “stop interfering with Islamic countries.”
The UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS) violated the Data Protection Act when it lost the passport renewal applications of 21 UK citizens, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved flawed cybersecurity standards for the US national power grid and failed to adequately monitor their implementation, according to an audit by the Department of Energy’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
Reports that President Obama is formulating plans to develop an internet 'kill switch', following infrastructure issues raised during the aftermath of the Egypt internet shutdown, should be viewed as a red flag to IT security professionals.