A heartless phishing gang that stole and frittered a British woman's entire £1 million ($1.6 million) life savings on items including "gold and cheeseburgers" have been handed heavy sentences by a judge at London's Southwark Crown Court.
Many organisations exaggerate the difficulties of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 by over-estimating the importance of little-used applications, a survey from consultancy Centrix Software has suggested.
Google’s Play store security has once again been embarrassed by the discovery of an ambitious botnet that sneaked past its app vetting systems to infect possibly huge numbers of Android users.
A significant chunk of new malware is not spotted by antivirus programs with some threats remaining a mystery for as long as a month, an analysis of large enterprises by firewall vendor Palo Alto Networks has calculated.
The tiny Raspberry Pi Foundation website and forum has been hit by two short but nasty DDoS attacks in the last week, the second attack flurry that has targeted the organisation since last summer, staff have confirmed.
One of the UK’s most skilled and successful convicted cybercriminals was allegedly able to hack into his prison’s mainframe after being allowed to take an IT course, an industrial tribunal hearing has heard.
Former LulzSec hacktivist turned supergrass ‘Sabu’ has dodged sentencing for a second time, presumably as a reward for his past or continued cooperation with the US Government.
A Russian man accused of being a key figure behind the notorious and hugely successful Reveton ‘police ransom’ malware that blackmailed thousands of PC users across the world has been arrested in Dubai, Spanish police have announced.
Applications matter for platforms but Minecraft matters more than most. The Raspberry Pi was invented to encourage youngsters to take up coding, but having the hit indie game as a lure won’t hurt.
An audacious hacker has posted a large cache of photographs and emails stolen from the email accounts of friends and relatives of former presidents George FW Bush and his son George W Bush, investigative magazine The Smoking Gun has reported.
Security firm AVG thinks it has spotted a disturbing new threat in its latest threat report - children with enough programming skills to code and distribute their own malware.
A lurid video posted last week by North Korea showing an imaginary attack on a US city has been removed by YouTube after games giant Activision objected to the regime’s use of footage from Call of Duty.
The FBI has arrested a man accused of stealing personal information from the online accounts of 350 women in order to ‘sextort’ them into stripping off so he could take nude pictures via webcam.
Millions of consumer devices using the ubiquitous Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol, including routers, printers, media servers and webcams, are vulnerable to a cocktail of dangerous security vulnerabilities, pen-testing outfit Rapid7 has disco...
A student at Northampton University and a man from south London have been jailed for taking part in an unsophisticated but effective 2010 DDoS rampage that reportedly cost PayPal £3.5 million ($5.6 million).
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