Microsoft has been forced to admit that a security update for its popular Excel application caused non-English text to appear on some users’ screens.

The latest version of the Zeus do-it-yourself crimeware kit goes to great lengths to thwart would-be pirates by introducing a hardware-based product activation scheme similar to what's found in Microsoft Windows.

Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible.

Computer hackers linked to the Russian mafia robbed Royal Bank of Scotland customers of £6million in 12 hours.

Computer hackers linked to the Russian mafia robbed Royal Bank of Scotland customers of £6million in 12 hours.

Andrew Ashley, 30, and Nimesh Bhagat, 31, stole more than £33,000 by infiltrating software controlling remote betting machines covering live roulette wheels at four Gala Casinos in London, a court heard.

Targeting point-of-sale devices with malicious software is standard practice, as the wave of retail hackings over the last few years have shown. But targeting them with malicious hardware -- that requires another level of brazenness altogether.

A security researcher has credited McAfee for helping him to develop exploit code that cracks open an unpatched flaw in older versions of Internet Explorer.

Fake antivirus programs that encourage Web users to part with their hard-earned cash and download hoax security software is likely to be the most costly scam of 2010, says McAfee.

South Korea said Friday it would launch a probe into security systems of major retailer Shinsegae and 24 other companies after private data on some 20 million customers was leaked.

PayPal users have reacted angrily to the suspension of Cryptome's account by the e-payment company and are using Cryptome's website to display their emails, cancelling their PayPal accounts.Although PayPal has now restored Cryptome's account, it was suspended for several days following Microsoft's action against the whistle-blowing site and the temporary shutdown of Cryptome by its hosting company.Faced with criticism over its heavy-handed approach, Microsoft claimed afterwards that it had not wished Cryptome to be shut down "While Microsoft has a good faith belief that the distribution of the file that was made available at that address infringes Microsoft's copyrights, it was not Microsoft's intention that the takedown request result in the disablement of web access to the entire cryptome.org website on which the file was made available," said the company's counsel, Evan Cox.

Retro gaming fans are being targeted in a new con designed to infect computers with a Trojan linked to scareware scams.

Users of Adobe PDF Reader should check they are running the latest version of the software after the discovery of an exploit that takes advantage of a serious flaw patched only three weeks ago.

A Colorado man has been charged with trying to sabotage a U.S. security database that holds sensitive information used for screening air travelers, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Police have detained 23 suspects in operations in 13 provinces, charging them with membership in a terror organization and attacking public institutions’ Web sites, the daily Radikal reported Wednesday.