Security
Queensland Police warn of tax refund phishing
Fake email mimics Australian Taxation Office formats
Security 25 May 06:11
Police cuff hundreds in £7.3 MILLION phone scam
Two plane-loads of crooks flown to China, amid suspicions of high-level Police corruption
Crime 25 May 03:48
How zombie LulzSec exposed privates' love lives with PHP hack
Single soldiers site swallowed surprise load
Malware 24 May 16:28
Fake Angry Birds app makers fined £50k for shock cash suck
Making money-grabbing malware is too easy on Android, say experts
Crime 24 May 14:01
Pipex 'silence' condemned punters' emails to spam blackhole
Analysis ISP blocked for a week after 'ignoring' complaints
Spam 24 May 12:03
Attack of the clones: Researcher pwns SecureID token system
Analysis But RSA claims it would only work on rootkit-compromised gear
Enterprise Security 24 May 11:13
Yahoo! leaks! private! key! in! Axis! Chrome! debut!
Extension launch scuppered by certificate blunder
Enterprise Security 24 May 09:39
BigPond GameArena hacked, 35,000 passwords reset
Quick disclosure from Telstra
Security 23 May 23:02
Armenia jails Bredolab botmaster for 4 years
First computer crime conviction in the former Soviet republic
Crime 23 May 19:03
Jailed Facebook hack Brit targeted Justin Bieber's girlfriend
Selena Gomez 'told' fans her boyfriend 'sucks' in attack
Crime 23 May 11:39
Indian SMBs facing advanced attack threats
Symantec warns of lack of security know-how
Security 23 May 04:10
Social media off to war with propaganda posts
Disinformation campaigns will start with NSFW honeypots
Security 22 May 20:15
Anonymous hacktivists dump 1.7GB load slurped from DoJ site
US Justice Department: 'It was nothing major'
Enterprise Security 22 May 18:03
Fake Facebook pull-down tricks social climbers into swallowing vile load
Malware-slingers understand your need to network
Malware 22 May 13:17
Titsup WHMCS calls the Feds after credit-card megaleak
Web billing biz ransacked, smashed offline by hacktivists
Enterprise Security 22 May 12:21
Ex-Yahoo! bigwig! admits! insider! trading!
He spilled beans on Microsoft search deal
Crime 22 May 11:28
China hits back at Pentagon's cyber spy allegations
US needs to "change its mind-set", says PRC
Security 22 May 07:07
Chinese social network to recruit in-house censor
Job ad for 'monitoring editor' points to web crackdown
Security 22 May 07:05
Eugene Kaspersky frustrated by Apple’s iOS AV ban
Wants to retaliate first before crooks crack iOS
Security 22 May 06:32
Defend your phone against loose networks? There’s an app for that
Researchers unveil ‘middlebox detection’ software
Security 22 May 00:17
Met cops' CSI mobe-snoop tech sparks privacy fears
Analysis Data held onto even if you're cleared in court
Crime 21 May 14:01
Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts
Patients' privates sent to wrong address for months
Security 21 May 12:03
T-Mobile slip exposes 1,100 punters' email addresses
Telco sweats it in the Hothouse
Spam 21 May 11:19
Met bobbies get CSI kit to probe perps' mobes
Skip lengthy lab analysis, press here for clues
Crime 21 May 10:23
Facebook and IM apps abused to spread social-climbing worm
Points you to a .zip archive full of badness
Malware 21 May 08:38
Anonymous takes out Indian CERT as attacks continue
DDoS aplenty in retaliation for site blocking order
Security 21 May 03:42
Apache OpenOffice security fixes emerge
Under new management: First revamp passes one million downloads
Enterprise Security 18 May 17:33
Call of Duty hacker behind bars after college burglary
18 months' porridge for banking malware-spreader
Malware 18 May 16:34
UK prosecutions for hacking appear to be be dropping
But plenty of caveats apply
Enterprise Security 18 May 13:02
Atlassian warns of critical security flaw
Confluence customers urged to upgrade
Security 18 May 06:50
Anonymous turns its DDoS cannons on India
Takes out government, court and political party sites
Crime 18 May 03:28
Governments may hit social networks with cyber attacks
Arab Spring alerted governments to power of Facebook, Twitter et al
Security 17 May 23:50
Seeing ads on Wikipedia? Then you're infected
Click fraudsters are milking you for cash
Malware 17 May 17:01
Council fined £70k after burglars nick vulnerable kids' files
Second data law breach in two years
Security 17 May 13:32
UK man to spend year in the clink for Facebook account hack
21-year-old admitted breaking into US victim's profile
Crime 17 May 12:02
Off-the-shelf forensics tool slurps iPhone data via iCloud
Cops don't need your actual phone any more
Security 17 May 10:18
Hong Kong CERT wants bigger team to tackle cyber threats
Region's multinationals a big target for hackers
Security 17 May 06:06
AWS CISO needs permission to visit his data centres
He doesn't mind and you shouldn't either because they're not that interesting
Enterprise Security 17 May 01:46
Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable
Father of BIND fears ISP crisis in July
Security 17 May 00:36
Google unleashes Chrome 19, flattens 20 bugs
Hot fuzz spawns QuickTime patch
Enterprise Security 16 May 14:02
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