An internet criminal who helped run a "Facebook for fraudsters" has been sentenced in London to four years and eight months in prison.

Waledac -- the spamming botnet formerly known as Storm -- was downed yesterday in a sneak attack by a team from Microsoft, Shadowserver, the University of Washington, Symantec, and a group of researchers from Germany and Austria who had first infiltrated the botnet last year.

Microsoft has warned Windows users to be on their guard against a piece of rogue antivirus software passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials.

Today Intel UK had their Twitter account hacked by a Phishing scam that is making the rounds on Twitter at the moment.

China's Baidu says in legal papers that that an obvious scammer was able to con Register.com support staff into handing over the keys to its kingdom, resulting in millions of dollars of lost revenue.

Existing threats such as phishing and document format vulnerabilities have continued to expand, even as users improve security, according to a new IBM report. The X-Force report reveals three main threats that demonstrate how in 2009 attackers increasingly targeted people using the Internet for monetary gain or data theft.

The dangers of security breaches has once again been highlighted after a critical server at the Valdosta State University in Georgia was hacked, compromising highly sensitive personal information of thousands of students and staff.

A Wisconsin teenager convicted of using Facebook to blackmail classmates into sex was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to an Associated Press report.

В Windows 7 есть несколько скрытых тем, которые очень просто открываются. Все дело в том, что устанавливая определенный языковой пакет, вы получаете тему для своей страны. В русской версии она называется "Россия". Но ведь есть множество стран, для которых созданы свои темы! Именно их мы сейчас откроем.

Скайп, бесспорно, рулит. Если раньше нам нужно было часами отвисать в текстовых чатах, набивая килобайты информации, то теперь, благодаря распространению безлимитного инета вплоть до российской глубинки, даже самые удаленные от столицы интернетчики могут познать радость голосового общения.

Каждый, кто работает в IT — странный. Признайте это: мы, технари, все с причудами — и в характере, и в подходе к работе. Уровень странности — лишь вопрос частного мнения, толкования и контекста.

The U.S. government, if confronted in a cyber war today, would not come out on top, a former U.S. director of national intelligence said Tuesday. "If the nation went to war today, in a cyber war, we would lose," Mike McConnell told a U.S. Senate committee. "We're the most vulnerable. We're the most connected. We have the most to lose."

Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms.

Researchers claim to have found a critical vulnerability in Windows that jeopardises all Windows operating systems from 2000 onwards.

The NSW Government has claimed a website housing its transport blueprint was hit with two days of "IT attacks" that breached security and exposed confidential documents.

Adobe yesterday patched a critical vulnerability in the Windows utility used to download the company's two most popular products, Adobe Reader and Flash Player.

HSBC is providing a security system to its internet banking customers in an attempt to fend off malware attacks and fraudulent phishing web sites.

Параллельно с новыми ОС Win2k8R2 и Win7 корпорация Microsoft анонсировала ряд решений, направленных на усиление безопасности сетей и серверов. Вместо ставших уже привычными имен и технологий, на IT-сцене появились совершенно новые названия

Одной из проблем, которая может возникнуть при длительной работе за компьютером является проблема с позвоночником. Были ли у вас неприятные ощущения после длительного сидения за компьютером? Спину ломило? Хотелось полежать на полу? Кстати, очень хороший способ расслабления

Criminals racked up more than $11,000 in fraudulent payment card charges using a skimming device planted in a Utah-based gas station pump, according to reports.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has contacted nearly 100 organisations following the discovery of a huge data breach on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

Intel Corp. was the target of cyber attacks in January, around the same time of the reported cyber attacks on Google Inc., the chip giant said in a regulatory filing.

A Texas manufacturing firm last week filed a counter lawsuit against PlainsCapital bank of Lubbock in connection with the cyber theft of some US$800,000 from its online banking account.

Technology that depends on satellite-navigation signals is increasingly threatened by attack from widely available equipment, experts say.

In the name of improved security a hacker showed how a biometric passport issued in the name of long-dead rock 'n' roll king Elvis Presley could be cleared through an automated passport scanning system being tested at an international airport.

A russian insecurity outfit has managed to create a zero day exploit for Firefox 3.6 under Windows.

Если посмотреть на репозитарий приложений месяц назад, когда я делился своими впечатлениями от общения с мини-компьютером от Nokia, и сейчас, то это две большие разницы. Программ становится все больше: часть портируется с Debian, часть со старых версий Maemo, которая использовался в предыдущих моделях интернет-планшетов, а часть разрезывается с нуля

The latest version of OpenOffice fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker.

eBay is working on a fix for a cross-site request forgery problem that could allow an attacker to change a user's password and get access to that user's account.

Malicious spam volumes increased dramatically in the back half of 2009, reaching three billion messages per day, compared to 600 million messages per day in the first half of 2009. But this is still a tiny fraction of the estimated global spam volume, thought to be about 200 billion messages per day.

In an effort to boost sales, sellers of a fake antivirus product known as Live PC Care are offering their victims live technical support.

Here's one more piece of evidence that the Mac isn't the secure, locked-down system that its proponents claim: The organizer of the Pwn2Own hacking contest says that Windows 7 is more secure than Snow Leopard, and that Safari will be the first browser to fall victim in the upcoming hacking contest.

An Internet forum which provided links to movies and TV shows hosted on sites such as Rapidshare has been raided by police. Following an anti-piracy group investigation, three alleged operators of the 30,000 member site were arrested, two of which were teenagers. Searches were carried out on members in three other locations.

Microsoft is looking into reports that some Windows Live customers may have gotten access to other users' information.

Facebook has made it possible for its members to assign, on the fly, a wider variety of access levels to content they post using third-party applications and Web sites, the company said Wednesday.

A French judge has issued an arrest warrant for a cyclist accused of hacking into computer systems at an anti-doping lab.

An annual hacking contest that has made mincemeat of security on both Mac and Windows computers will set its sights on smartphones and browsers with as much as $100,000 in awards next month.

Czech security experts have uncovered a global network of devices attacked by computer viruses within which it was possible to wiretap and gain access to sensitive data, Jan Vykopal, head of the security project of Masaryk University, told CTK yesterday.

A group of over 30 national and international computer security groups on Tuesday released a list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors as part of an effort to make the custom software business more accountable.

A common Web programming error could give hackers a way to take over Google Buzz accounts, a security expert said Tuesday.