Users should disable JavaScript in Adobe's Reader and Acrobat tools to protect themselves until a patch for a just-disclosed vulnerability is available, security experts said today.

Malware purveyors are exploiting web vulnerabilities in appleinsider.com, lawyer.com, news.com.au and a dozen other sites to foist rogue anti-virus on unsuspecting netizens.

Public fascination with television's "CSI" forensic detectives and with the virtual reality depicted in the "Matrix" films may be partly responsible for the high level of interest garnered by a Defense Department contest to solve cyber crimes.

As 2009 draws to a close and a new decade dawns, CSOonline has reached out to some of the industry's best known security pros in search of insight on what the next 12 months and beyond have in store for our IT and cyber infrastructure. Each participant was asked to make five predictions.

Research carried out by Bell Micro, the IT systems distributor, claims to show that 67% of organisations believe there is a greater threat to their IT systems security and integrity from within their organisation than from hackers outside.

Cybercriminals are lazy. Given the choice between adapting their malicious software to a new operating system or focusing on users who haven't made the switch, they'll inevitably choose the path of least resistance, according to a new report from Finnish security firm F-Secure.

In a newly released report, security researcher claims that Google’s reCAPTCHA, one of the most widely adopted free CAPTCHA services, contains weaknesses that would allow a 10,000 infected hosts botnet the ability to achieve 10 recognition successes every second, allowing it to register 864,000 new accounts per day.

Rest assured that 2010 is going to be a big year for the Android operating system, with many new handsets finding their way to stores around the world (including Google’s own phone) and an increasing number of developers building tools, games and the likes for the fast-growing platform.

According to web analytics company Net Applications, Chrome marketshare leaped to 4.4 percent last week, based on the analysis of 160 million unique visitors to 40,000 sites. Meanwhile, Safari only held 4.37 percent of the market. A narrow victory? Sure. But a victory the nonce.

A damaged Telstra cable under Melbourne airport brought down the airline's telecommunications service provider, crippling its passenger check-in process from lunchtime yesterday and forcing the cancellation of 48 flights.

Если ты считаешь, что Tor - это исключительно средство для обеспечения приватности в сети, то ты неправ дважды. Во-первых, его распределенную сеть можно использовать в разных целях. А, во-вторых, не так уж безопасен черт, как его малюют

Когда вам говорят об опасностях длительной работы за компьютером, какие риски чаще всего вспоминают? Испортишь глаза! Будет болеть спина! Все это верно, но риски для глаз практически сведены "на нет" хорошим монитором, а спина любит спортзал и хорошее кресло

Any break-in pursues its own aim, which determines its value. It's up to you to decide whether to deface a site for the latent risqué things lovers or to screw up another root shell. The reality is that any vulnerability in a web application poses a threat to the server. And if you don't confine yourself to the trite and somewhat boring SQL injections so this article is right for you. The victim's address is at input, the admin access via RDP is at output – these are classics of penetration!

The anti-spam community is unlikely to have any future successes on the same scale of the McColo shutdown, as botnet herders have learned from their mistakes to make botnets harder to track and close, according to McAfee.

A bug in the latest version of the Google Chrome browser could leak the identity of users trying to surf anonymously, developers warn.

Koobface - the long-running worm which first appeared 12 months ago - is being customised by hackers to crack security systems on website hosting services, and so allow it to auto-create its own web pages.

A team of hackers has successfully rooted the recently released Nook e-reader.

The United States and Russia have begun discussions on increasing security online. The two sides are also said to be working for an agreement to cut the number of online military attacks.

Online attacks against databases have taken off in the past 18 months, according to data released by IBM’s X-Force security team.

A new scareware package tries to sell bogus antivirus software to its victims using an apparent endorsement of the software by Microsoft.