The WikiLeaks attackgeist known as Anonymous has staged distributed denial of service (DDoS) network attacks on more sites, including Moneybookers and the Dutch National Police Service.
It seems that the cybercriminal gangs behind the malware distribution networks are now tapping into the power of major ad-farming networks on the internet.
Online retailing was disrupted yesterday when Visa and Mastercard were targeted by hackers following the firms' refusal to process WikiLeaks payments.
The British Columbia auditor general has determined that the provincial government has not fully implemented its Security HealthCheck (SHC) system set up in 2006 to monitor compliance with information security policies.
The arrest of Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing portal, is causing mayhem in the electronic payments world as, hard on the heels of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the PayPal blog site earlier this week, a second group of hacktivists have staged a massive a...
Just in time for the holiday season, Google has unveiled Gingerbread, the latest release of the company’s Android operating system for mobile devices.
The main driver of IT operating expenses is the increasing costs of malware incidents, according to a recent survey of IT personnel conducted by the Ponemon Institute.
A hacking attack on a key investigative agency of the Indian government shows that cyberspace is increasingly becoming a battleground, say security experts.
A hacking attack on a key investigative agency of the Indian government shows that cyberspace is increasingly becoming a battleground, say security experts.
Two-thirds of employees expose sensitive data outside the workplace, according to a survey by People Security.
Visa's CodeSure technology, which essentially adds a calculator-style keypad and LCD screen to a credit/debit card, is about to be tested for use with online government services in the UK.
December is rapidly turning into a festival of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on WikiLeaks and a number of sites looking to distance themselves from the high-profile government reporting portal.
The Mac OS virtualization product has been updated by VMware to address three minor security vulnerabilities and a host of known bugs.
Lumension is sponsoring a new website to share insights into intelligent whitelisting technology to improve organizations’ information security.
The latest software update from security supplier AVG Technologies has caused problems with many users running Microsoft's 64-bit Windows 7 operating system.
Reports are coming in that the FBI has identified a 23-year-old Russian as the lynchpin behind the infamous Mega-D botnet, which has been responsible for as much as a third of all spam generated around the world.
Visa Europe has announced plans to use the location of a cardholder's mobile phone to better detect fraud using its payment cards. The card company has reportedly contracted with ValidSoft, part of the ElephantTalk telecoms group, for the service.
With the growth in the popularity of virtualization comes attendant security risks, noted a recent white paper from the global IT association ISACA.
Russia has finally buried the US…in spam. Russia topped the list of sources of global spam, with the US a distant 18th, according to Kaspersky Labs’ October spam report.
An IT security researcher claims to have uncovered a sophisticated mass injection attack that uses a polymorphic obfuscation attack vector, and has been used to target WordPress blogs at a US-based hosting provider.