A new VOIP trojan – TrojansVOIP – is reportedly doing the rounds and allowing cybercriminals to take control of corporate internet telephony systems to make free premium rate and international calls.
Trusteer has secured a headline deal with First Data, under which its Rapport and Pinpoint online banking protection will be offered as part of the First Data solutions offered to the firm's clients.
In its Q2 analysis of DDoS attacks, Kaspersky Lab reports that the old principle of most attacks being driven by financially-motived hackers has gone by the board, with politically-motivated attacks from Anonymous and LulzSec changing the DDoS playing field.
The Information Commissioner's Office has slammed the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration for twice mishandling sensitive personal information.
Two more people have been arrested in the UK as part the on-going transatlantic crackdown on hacktivist group Anonymous and offshoot Lulz Security (LulzSec).
The bar has been lowered when it comes to organizations doing their own malware analysis in-house. That was the sentiment of one forensic analyst from Norman, the Norway-based provider of anti-malware technologies.
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is suing the Guardian over allegations that the newspaper published a password to files which led to the identity of top secret sources being revealed.
A Trend Micro senior says that agentless security is rapidly becoming a key option when defending virtual and private cloud environments.
The latest Which? Computing magazine asks the question whether smartphone and tablet computer tracking software can help to catch a thief and, of course, return the hardware to its owner.
The president emeritus of the ONA – the Online News Association – has slammed the Android operating system for its inherent insecurity.
Pakistani authorities have banned the use of virtual private networks in a crackdown on internet access.
A 43-year-old former finance department employee of web optimization firm Akamai has pleaded guilty to espionage charges in the US.
SparkyBlaze, a former hacktivist with Anonymous, offered some advice to companies to stop hackers, in an interview with Cisco’s Jason Lackey.
A mysterious ATM heist involving just 22 pre-paid debit cards - and hackers allegedly altering the maximum daily withdrawal limits - has reportedly lost an American bank around $13 million.
The website of the Northumbria Police Authority was hacked recently but, according to Chris Boyd, a senior researcher with GFI Software, the hack lives on in Google's search caches.
Organizations should ensure that their information security, public relations, and legal departments coordinate their response to a hacktivist attack, recommends Greg Nowak with the Information Security Forum (ISF).
Personal information on 350,000 South Koreans was breached as a result of a hack of Epson Korea’s website.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is working on improving security awareness for smartphones and other mobile computing platforms used by DoD personnel.
An M86 Software researcher says his team has seen a major malicious spam campaign that is using the Cutwail botnet to bombard Facebook users with a variety of infected messages.
A leading security researcher claims to have researched a money mule – people who allow their bank accounts to become staging posts for fraudulent money obtained in online scams – that clearly knew exactly what he was doing.