Developers of the Linux kernel have patched a bug that allowed attackers to remotely crash a machine by sending it malicious Wi-Fi signals.

Microsoft will fix 12 security flaws, including a critical Internet Explorer 8 zero-day vulnerability, with a total of six bulletins in its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.

Earier this week the Spanish Government announced plans to reform its copyright legislation so it can shut down file-sharing sites more easily. In a response to this announcement, hackers have now defaced the website of the country’s leading anti-piracy outfit, Promusicae, replacing it with a manifesto on the rights of Internet users.

Security researchers have published reports - which the company later confirmed - that Adobe's Illustrator application for graphic designers is vulnerable to a particular type of malicious exploit that could allow remote code execution on the machines.

Disgruntled employees in the U.K. have a financial incentive to tell on their employer if they suspect the software they've been using is improperly licensed.

We in the media love to stick it to the IT security bad guys: the notorious hackers or the bumbling civil servants who put nothing more than a first-class stamp on a disc containing millions of personal files.

As servers and desktops become too tough to crack, malicious hackers will turn their attentions to smart phones such as the iPhone, former Microsoft security officer Howard Schmidt told a gathering of security professionals in Sydney today.

More than 1,200 bogus websites that defraud shoppers across Britain by claiming to sell cut-price goods have been shut down in a major police operation ahead of the busy Christmas period.

Apple released the two updates, Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6, on Thursday. Both include a number of security fixes for the cross-platform technology, with the Leopard update being the heftier of the two, weighing in at 122MB.

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Defense contractor Northrop Grumman and three universities announced on Tuesday that they would form a research consortium to find and develop solutions to current cybersecurity challenges.

Intel has released the first beta of the software developers kit (SDK) for the Atom platform.

More than five per cent of the sites on the web could cause security risks, with Cameroon's .cm domain the most dangerous, according to the third annual State of the Mal Web report from security giant McAfee, released today.

In Denmark it's legal to make backup copies of your DVDs, but illegal to break the DRM that prevents copying them. This annoyed a guy so much that he decided to turn himself in for ripping his own DVD collection.

As law enforcement agents increase their reliance on Facebook and MySpace to nab suspects, legal watchdogs are demanding that officials disclose exactly how they use social networking sites.

Mozilla updated its nearly-baked Thunderbird 3 Tuesday night, fixing one critical error and addressing three others. The critical bug fix affects the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 2. It had caused the previous version to hang on shutdown, consume too much memory, and close all IMAP connections.

OK, so it's technically impossible to beat a game that has no defined ending, but World of Warcraft player "Little Gray" is the first to finish virtually every single thing that the land of Azeroth currently has to offer.

At a media gathering Wednesday, the security vendor released a report outlining security threats enterprises and consumers should be mindful of in 2010. Of these, the security risk faced by everyday Internet users is likely to increase as criminals look to trick people into downloading malware through means such as an innocent-looking URL link or videos and pictures from unknown sources.