Russian hackers get a “gold medal” for fraud, but their Chinese counterparts carried out more than half of all the cybercrimes committed last year, according to Kaspersky Lab, Russia’s largest antivirus software developer.

A Nebraska man is expected to plead guilty next week to launching a cyber attack that shut down the Church of Scientology's Web sites, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Five Web sites run by Chinese human rights activists were attacked by hackers over the weekend, as a separate row continued between Google and China over political cyberattacks.

The administrators of the Tor anonymiser network are urging users to upgrade their software in the wake of a security breach. A total of three servers belonging to the network were compromised in an attack by unidentified hackers who proceeded to use the machines as a base to launch other attacks. The affected servers have since been "refurnished," according to the team.

Google has announced version 4.0 of its browser Chrome. Available for Windows only, it fixes 13 bugs and improves synchronization of extensions.

The hackers who infiltrated the computer systems of Google earlier this month first carried out sophisticated reconnaisance and may even have posed as friends of Google employees, according to McAfee chief technology officer George Kurtz.

Computer scientists in Britain have uncovered weaknesses in electronic passports issued by the US, UK, and some 50 other countries that allow attackers to trace the movements of individuals as they enter or exit buildings.

A Texas bank is suing a customer hit by an $800,000 cybertheft incident in a case that could test the extent to which customers should be held responsible for protecting their online accounts from compromises.

A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's office.

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At least three US oil companies were victims of highly targeted, email-borne attacks designed to siphon valuable data from their corporate networks and send it abroad, according to a published report citing unnamed people and government documents.

An update to Kaspersky's popular anti-virus software on Monday falsely identified Google Adsense as a malicious script.

Google today added support for extensions and bookmark synchronization to the production version of Chrome for Windows.

Hackers hit five Chinese human rights groups with distributed denial of service attacks over the weekend. Among the targeted sites was Chinese Human Rights Defenders, which was hit by a 16 hour attack, beginning on Saturday, according to the site.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer could inadvertently allow a hacker to read files on a person's computer, another problem for the company just days after a serious vulnerability received an emergency patch.

If you think spam attacks were bad in 2009, just wait until 2010 gets going.

The cyber attacks against Google, Adobe and a raft of other top U.S. corporations late last year were by most accounts sophisticated and targeted attempts to steal proprietary data. But lost in all of the resulting media hoopla over who the remaining victims were and whether Chinese hackers or indeed the Chinese government itself were responsible is the simple, terrifying truth that individual hackers now have access to the same arsenal of cyber weapons once reserved only for nation states.

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