Nations that want to disrupt their enemies' banking, media and government resources don't need their own technical skills; they can …
Trend Micro CEO: hackers hitting AV infrastructure
It’s become an all-too-common scam: A legitimate Web site pops up a window that looks just like a real security …
Trend Micro CEO: hackers hitting AV infrastructure
It's become an all-too-common scam: A legitimate Web site pops up a window that looks just like a real security …
Gartner on cloud security: 'Our nightmare scenario is here now'
At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo this week, thousands of IT managers packed into sessions on the topic of virtualization of …
Operation Phish Phry hooks 100 in U.S. and Egypt
More than 50 people in Southern California, Las Vegas and Charlotte, N.C., were indicted by a grand jury in Los …
Operation Phish Phry hooks 100 in U.S. and Egypt
More than 50 people in Southern California, Las Vegas and Charlotte, N.C., were indicted by a grand jury in Los …
Malware flea market pays hackers to hijack PCs
Among a slew of online cybercrime forums, Pay-Per-Install.org stands out as a malware flea market where shadowy pushers of Trojan …
Malware flea market pays hackers to hijack PCs
Among a slew of online cybercrime forums, Pay-Per-Install.org stands out as a malware flea market where shadowy pushers of Trojan …
Spam, malware dominate online user comments, Websense reports
A staggering 95% of all “user-generated comments” for blogs, chat rooms and message boards online are spam or malicious, according …
Domain-name abuse proliferates
For legitimate businesses, a domain name is a way to hang a shingle in cyberspace. In the criminal world, domain …
Latest malware trick: outsourcing quality assurance
Creators of Waledac malware enlisted the Conficker botnet as a tool to spread malware of their own, marking the first …
Security group converges to fight Internet abuse
As cybercrime continues to proliferate on the Internet, one industry security group is hoping its work will help stem the …
China denies cyberspy network charges
China denied suggestions it could be involved in a cyberespionage ring that attacked computers worldwide from servers mostly based in …
China becoming the world’s malware factory
With China's economy cooling down, some of the country's IT professionals are turning to cybercrime, according to a Beijing-based security …
Security expert worries about smart phone, TinyURL threats
It’s just that F-Secure’s chief security advisor doesn’t want people overlooking the other 29,999 malware files his company sees a …
9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers’ Favorite Pick-Up Lines
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is …
The promise of information cards
UAE authorities recently announced they had broken up an international Internet data-smuggling ring suspected of hacking into the credit network …
With global effort, a new type of worm is slowed
There have been big computer worm outbreaks before, but nothing quite like Conficker . First spotted in November, the worm …
Top 25 software screw-ups
Most IT security woes, from software patching to cyberespionage and cybercrime, can be traced to the devastating effects wrought by …
Winds of Change: Barack Obama
Senator Barack Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, has been elected the first African-American president of the U.S., news organizations declared …