Waledac -- the spamming botnet formerly known as Storm -- was downed yesterday in a sneak attack by a team from Microsoft, Shadowserver, the University of Washington, Symantec, and a group of researchers from Germany and Austria who had first infiltrated the botnet last year.

Microsoft has warned Windows users to be on their guard against a piece of rogue antivirus software passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials.

Today Intel UK had their Twitter account hacked by a Phishing scam that is making the rounds on Twitter at the moment.

China's Baidu says in legal papers that that an obvious scammer was able to con Register.com support staff into handing over the keys to its kingdom, resulting in millions of dollars of lost revenue.

Existing threats such as phishing and document format vulnerabilities have continued to expand, even as users improve security, according to a new IBM report. The X-Force report reveals three main threats that demonstrate how in 2009 attackers increasingly targeted people using the Internet for monetary gain or data theft.

The dangers of security breaches has once again been highlighted after a critical server at the Valdosta State University in Georgia was hacked, compromising highly sensitive personal information of thousands of students and staff.

A Wisconsin teenager convicted of using Facebook to blackmail classmates into sex was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to an Associated Press report.

В Windows 7 есть несколько скрытых тем, которые очень просто открываются. Все дело в том, что устанавливая определенный языковой пакет, вы получаете тему для своей страны. В русской версии она называется "Россия". Но ведь есть множество стран, для которых созданы свои темы! Именно их мы сейчас откроем.

Скайп, бесспорно, рулит. Если раньше нам нужно было часами отвисать в текстовых чатах, набивая килобайты информации, то теперь, благодаря распространению безлимитного инета вплоть до российской глубинки, даже самые удаленные от столицы интернетчики могут познать радость голосового общения.

Каждый, кто работает в IT — странный. Признайте это: мы, технари, все с причудами — и в характере, и в подходе к работе. Уровень странности — лишь вопрос частного мнения, толкования и контекста.

The U.S. government, if confronted in a cyber war today, would not come out on top, a former U.S. director of national intelligence said Tuesday. "If the nation went to war today, in a cyber war, we would lose," Mike McConnell told a U.S. Senate committee. "We're the most vulnerable. We're the most connected. We have the most to lose."

Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms.

Researchers claim to have found a critical vulnerability in Windows that jeopardises all Windows operating systems from 2000 onwards.