It used to be that cyber criminals were people with a highly technical skill set, but this is not the norm anymore. This fact became obvious some two weeks ago when news of the takedown of the Mariposa botnet and the three men behind it reached the global public.

Spending on IT security is returning to pre-recession rates, according to the latest study from analyst firm Canalys.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has hacked into 29 websites affiliated with US espionage networks, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Sunday.

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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.