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Mutant Koobface worm attacks Skype accounts

By Aharon Etengoff Friday, 20 November 2009 16:46

Probes Wikipedia, YouTube and Google

China has free reign over US computers

By Nigel Constantine Friday, 20 November 2009 03:58

Committee warns Congress

McAfee indulges in bout of cyber scare mongering

By C Shanti Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:12

Evidence, dear boy, evidence

Microsoft issues Windows 7 security advisory

By Aharon Etengoff Monday, 16 November 2009 18:27

Situation "actively" monitored

Egypt creates first Arabic domain name

By Emma Woollacott Monday, 16 November 2009 04:42

Amid criticisms of internet censorship

Firefox 'most insecure browser'

By Andrew Thomas Tuesday, 10 November 2009 06:27

Not much of a birthday present for Mozilla

Microsoft preps critical security updates

By Aharon Etengoff Friday, 06 November 2009 16:30

Tuesday patch blitzkrieg

Australian atheists targeted by hackers

By Emma Woollacott Tuesday, 20 October 2009 23:57

Atheist websites in Australia have been hit by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, others also hit in Hotmail phishing attack

By Andrew Thomas Monday, 05 October 2009 23:52

Phishing attack hits email users

It has emerged that yesterday’s news of 10,000 Hotmail accounts being hacked was merely the tip of the iceberg and 20,000 AOL, Yahoo, Comcast, Earthlink and Gmail accounts have also been compromised.

Hotmail passwords get leaked online

By the writing staff Monday, 05 October 2009 07:26

Web site neowin.net reported that thousands of Hotmail accounts were posted online a few days ago.

Bank forces suspension of Gmail user's account

By Emma Woollacott Wednesday, 30 September 2009 01:00

A Gmail user had his email service suspended because a bank sent him other people's account details by mistake.

AT&T invests in Intel snooping technology

By Nigel Constantine Friday, 18 September 2009 00:32

The telco investigated for snooping on customers for the government in the wake of the September 11 attacks has decided to take advantage of a “call for help” feature on Intel's vPro technology.

Scammers exploit Swayzee death

By Emma Woollacott Wednesday, 16 September 2009 00:20

We saw it with Michael Jackson, we saw it with Farrah Fawcett - a celebrity death is bonanza time for spammers. And Patrick Swayzee is no exception, with scareware alerts appearing within hours of his death.

Hacked flight sim firm fingers suspect

By Emma Woollacott Wednesday, 09 September 2009 01:07

The US publisher of a flight simulator site which was hacked in May says it has tracked down the perpetrator and provided evidence to the British police.

ATM fraud increases

By Emma Woollacott Monday, 07 September 2009 04:05

ATM fraud in Europe is rising fast, with criminals using increasingly sophisticated methods of attack.

Microsoft: No backdoor in Windows 7

By Aharon Etengoff Friday, 20 November 2009 14:37

But NSA admits involvement in OS security guide

British police bust Zbot Trojan ring

By Aharon Etengoff Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:11

A zombie army "spewing" out spam

How to stop the Feds tapping your phone

By Andrew Thomas Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:18

Your cut out and keep guide

Put your faith in the cloud

By Mark Everett Hall Monday, 16 November 2009 06:22

Unless you know what you're doing

Group takes control of dozens of Facebook sites

By Emma Woollacott Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:56

Aims to highlight privacy issues

Rickrolling worm infects jailbroken iPhones

By Aharon Etengoff Sunday, 08 November 2009 18:14

Never going to give you up

US government opens $9m cyber security center

By Emma Woollacott Saturday, 31 October 2009 08:01

The US government is promising a more coordinated approach to cyber attacks, with the creation of a new $9 million cyber security center.

Adobe sneaks out mega security patch

By Andrew Thomas Wednesday, 14 October 2009 00:41

A good day to bury bad news

While bloggers tut-tut at Microsoft’s record 34 vulnerabilities, patched yesterday in 13 updates, Adobe has sneaked out fixes for a staggering 29 flaws in just two products.

Government anti-leak document leaked

By Nigel Constantine Monday, 05 October 2009 23:31

There is more embarrassment for the UK Ministry of Defence after a document about how to avoid leaks of documents was leaked onto the internet.

Filtering system fights DoS attacks more efficiently

By Emma Woollacott Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:42

Auburn University in Alabama has developed a new way of filtering out denial of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, which it says could significantly improve security on government, commercial, and educational systems.

Digital ants seek out security threats

By Emma Woollacott Monday, 28 September 2009 06:04

There's a sort of logic to it: security experts are fighting worms using a strategy modeled on the behaviour of ants.

Microsoft sues over "malvertising"

By Nigel Constantine Thursday, 17 September 2009 23:33

Software giant Microsoft is suing the writers of scareware code of the type that hit the New York Times over the weekend.

Captchas show machines just don't have warped minds

By Emma Woollacott Wednesday, 09 September 2009 23:23

Those annoying little Captcha images look set to be around a while longer, following a study examining whether they really do prevent automated network attacks.

FCC forms cyber security group

By Aharon Etengoff Tuesday, 08 September 2009 08:34

A slew of recent hacking attacks has prompted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to form a cyber security working group. The group is expected to assess the FCC's current cyber security expertise, identify vulnerabilities and submit recommendations to address any deficiencies.