As Valentine's Day nears, security experts are issuing warnings of fresh attacks targeting the holiday.

An upstart Trojan horse program has decided to take on its much-larger rival by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers.

As the world becomes increasingly dependent on information technology and digital communications, persistent vulnerabilities — some of which have been known for 50 years — continue to expose the world’s networks and applications to attacks.

Payroll processing firm Ceridian this week is advising more than 1,900 customer companies that a hacker managed to access the company's Internet payroll system in late December, potentially compromising the sensitive data of more than 27,000 workers.

While you're enjoying the Olympics a cyber thief could be plundering your BlackBerry or smartphone thanks to that new Bluetooth headset you just bought to comply with B.C.'s new hands-free driving laws.

Hackers have figured out a way to enable the Motorola Droid to play host to a variety of Linux-based USB devices. This means that the smartphone can directly connect and control printers, TV tuners, video cameras, and many other devices that speak Linux. The mod was created by Mike Baker of OpenWRT and Mike Kershaw from Kismet, and shared with the public by Chris Paget in this blog.

Pirates may have their illegally downloaded copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, however their captain has been fined $1.5 Million in damages.

iPhone users beware - an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating Apple.com, attempts to trick users into submitting sensitive device information, with the scammers in a perfect position to use the data in a countless number of fraudulent variations.

Microsoft has released the February edition of its Patch Tuesday security update. The latest release includes 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities.

A Las Vegas software developer has been charged over a software cookie scam that left eBay severely out of pocket.

Researchers discovered a new banking trojan that is being used to steal the financial credentials of customers at approximately 15 large- and mid-size U.S. banks.

Satellites can bring a digital signal to places where the Internet seems like a miracle: off-the-grid desert solar farms, the Arctic or an aircraft carrier at sea. But in beaming data to and from the world's most remote places, satellite Internet may also offer its signal to a less benign recipient: any digital miscreant within thousands of miles.

A consortium of security and infrastructure management organisations has launched a new project to help secure Domain Name System (DNS) queries.

A Las Vegas web developer has been charged with fleecing eBay out of tens of thousands of dollars by selling a program that planted fraudulent web cookies on the PCs of people visiting the online auctioneer.

If you think that ensuring one’s Internet privacy is the only mean of the Tor software then you are wrong twice. First off, its suballocated network can be used for different purposes. And secondly, it’s not as safe as it’s painted. Alas.

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