Cops across Europe, the US and Australia have collared 178 people in an operation to smash an international fake credit card production network turning over more than £17m.

The recent AT&T data leak underscores the need for iPad security precautions. A few simple steps can help protect confidential data.

The Google trends are once again a mix of hot trends, including the Gulf Oil Spill, Michael Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Microsoft and Microsoft Kinect.

Senior US law enforcement officials have objected to AOL's pending sale of instant-messaging service ICQ to a Russian investment firm. Investigators at federal agencies charged with scrutinising cybercrime are concerned about the USD 187.5 million acquisition of ICQ by Moscow-based Digital Sky Technologies, the Financial Times writes. ICQ is the leading instant messaging service in Russia, Germany and the Czech Republic and, according to law enforcement investigators, is one of the main avenues of communication for criminal groups in eastern Europe, some of whom never meet in person.

The vulnerability of information stored on a computer hard drive has been recognized as a security risk for some time, but did you know that digital photocopiers and high-end laser printers also include a hard drive which can store and log all of your activity? Today’s copiers and printers harvest images of every scanned, faxed and printed document.

При правильном подходе к распределению трудоемкой задачи между имеющимися вычислительными мощностями экономятся время (деньги), ресурсы, а для кого-то и нервные клетки. Именно для этого предназначена система распределенных вычислений, созданием и организацией которой мы займемся в этой статье.

Все мы так или иначе стремимся жить счастливо. У кого-то это планы на краткосрочный период, кто-то задается целью прожить счастливо всю жизнь, а кто-то просто живет и наслаждается. Простого рецепта счастья, который бы подошел для всех пока, к сожалению, не существует

Facebook has been hit by another scam that exploits the social network's 'Like' button, reports security firm Sophos.

Google Wave is a highly anticipated collaboration tool that is still on the horizon. What kind of security options is Google working on for its Wave protocol in 2010? Have some of the big security holes present in the September 2009 protocol release been addressed?

A recent survey conducted by Tufin Technologies, a provider of firewall management software, finds that of the 242 IT professionals working at companies with over 1,000 employees, 30 percent said they audited their firewall security only once in every five plus years. So when those systems are ultimately compromised, and then used to harm systems elsewhere, who should be liable? Obviously, the perpetrator of the crime is primarily responsible

Indian security agencies have tracked a server in Pakistan that was used to hack the computer of an Indian Army major based in the Andamans who is being questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Over the last few days, news has emerged that a U.S. Army intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, was the source that recently leaked classified information to Wikileaks. But he didn't just leak 260,000 classified cables and a brutal video of an Apache helicopter mowing down civilians and journalists in Iraq -- no, he also leaked the code name and details of the government investigation into the Chinese attacks on Google and other Silicon Valley businesses.

The revelation that the open-source Unreal IRC server download has been infected with malware for some eight months is pretty worrying. But the added discovery that this Trojan horse made its way into the Gentoo distro is real reason for the Linux community to re-examine how trusted repositories are handled.

Если вы видите вещи, которых нет на самом деле, это означает одно из двух: вы либо нуждаетесь в отдыхе в маленькой уютной комнате с мягкими стенами, либо являетесь одним из первых пользователей революционной технологии, которая в самое ближайшее время заставит нас увидеть окружающий мир совершенно по-новому