More details have emerged on the Google hack which has prompted the firm to threaten to pull out of China, including evidence linking the attack to a similar hack on 100 Silicon Valley firms last year, and the possibility that Adobe's corporate network has also been hacked by China.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on the Chinese government to explain the details of the attacks Google claims it, and around 20 other companies, suffered in December.

Today McAfee, the world’s leading dedicated security company, and Facebook announced an unprecedented collaboration that will provide additional security protection to a significant portion of the Internet population. Through this partnership, the two companies have jointly created security solutions that include McAfee security software, a custom scanning and repair tool, and consumer friendly education materials that Facebook will make available to its more than 350 million users

Evgeny Legerov, the 30-year-old IT security researcher, founder of Intevydis, the Moscow-based IT security consultancy, has caused a quiet storm in security research circles, after saying he plans to release zero-day flaws on a range of popular applications, but without having notified the vendors concerned.

An interview with an anonymous Facebook employee is flying around the web and burning up Twitter, but is the info discussed really anything surprising? The employee revealed that the company records everything their users post, upload and view, and that their data is kept even if they delete it.

After taking a long hiatus, trojan dialers that can rack up thousands of dollars in charges are back by popular demand.

Silverpac showcased an intelligent thermostat as CES that uses an interactive touchscreen interface. The system features a programmable 7 day cycle the is managed through a 7 inch display that illustrates how energy is being used in the home. The system can even isolate the energy use of specific appliances and suggest alternative use patterns to help save energy. The system also has Wi-Fi, allowing it to send usage data straight to the utility company.

The French agency tasked with enforcing strict anti-piracy regulations has been left severely embarrassed after the revelation that its logo contains pirated material.

Adobe has issued a new round of security updates for its Reader and Acrobat applications.

A new encryption scheme for protecting 3G phone networks hasn't even gone into commercial use and already cryptographers have cracked it - at least theoretically.

Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers of small New York bank after breaching its security and accessing a server that hosted its online banking system.

Microsoft today issued just one security update for Windows, the lowest number on a Patch Tuesday since January 2009.

It seems that hackers and malware authors are using new techniques to infect your home or office PC, as veteran IT security vendor Sophos has spotted a rash of fake Amazon `shipping email updates' over the weekend.

The diplomatic row between Israel and Turkey is now spilling over into cyberspace. Turkish hackers infiltrated the Jerusalemonline.com news Web site on Tuesday.

The South Korean military will ban the use of USB flash drives in an attempt to thwart increasing cyber attacks, officials at the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Jan. 12.

Romanian hackers continue to have a field day with SQL injection flaws in major Website applications: A vulnerability in a U.S. Army Website that leaves the database wide open to an attacker has now been exposed.