A Texas manufacturing firm last week filed a counter lawsuit against PlainsCapital bank of Lubbock in connection with the cyber theft of some US$800,000 from its online banking account.

Technology that depends on satellite-navigation signals is increasingly threatened by attack from widely available equipment, experts say.

In the name of improved security a hacker showed how a biometric passport issued in the name of long-dead rock 'n' roll king Elvis Presley could be cleared through an automated passport scanning system being tested at an international airport.

A russian insecurity outfit has managed to create a zero day exploit for Firefox 3.6 under Windows.

Если посмотреть на репозитарий приложений месяц назад, когда я делился своими впечатлениями от общения с мини-компьютером от Nokia, и сейчас, то это две большие разницы. Программ становится все больше: часть портируется с Debian, часть со старых версий Maemo, которая использовался в предыдущих моделях интернет-планшетов, а часть разрезывается с нуля

The latest version of OpenOffice fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker.

eBay is working on a fix for a cross-site request forgery problem that could allow an attacker to change a user's password and get access to that user's account.

Malicious spam volumes increased dramatically in the back half of 2009, reaching three billion messages per day, compared to 600 million messages per day in the first half of 2009. But this is still a tiny fraction of the estimated global spam volume, thought to be about 200 billion messages per day.

In an effort to boost sales, sellers of a fake antivirus product known as Live PC Care are offering their victims live technical support.

Here's one more piece of evidence that the Mac isn't the secure, locked-down system that its proponents claim: The organizer of the Pwn2Own hacking contest says that Windows 7 is more secure than Snow Leopard, and that Safari will be the first browser to fall victim in the upcoming hacking contest.

An Internet forum which provided links to movies and TV shows hosted on sites such as Rapidshare has been raided by police. Following an anti-piracy group investigation, three alleged operators of the 30,000 member site were arrested, two of which were teenagers. Searches were carried out on members in three other locations.

Microsoft is looking into reports that some Windows Live customers may have gotten access to other users' information.

Facebook has made it possible for its members to assign, on the fly, a wider variety of access levels to content they post using third-party applications and Web sites, the company said Wednesday.

A French judge has issued an arrest warrant for a cyclist accused of hacking into computer systems at an anti-doping lab.