We all know 'em, and we all hate 'em: viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, and malware of any kind. From their origins in science fiction to Flame, Trivia Tuesday delves into your security nightmares. More...

The White House has admitted a cyber-attack occurred on Sunday, in which the hackers could have accessed information about the country's nuclear arsenal. China has been suggested as a perpetrator. More...

A new study from Microsoft Research says that Nigerian ('419') scammers don't want you to take them seriously; it's all part of a plot to weed out all but the most gullible users. More...

Microsoft has issued an urgent warning for all supported versions of Windows (phones included) about unauthorized certificates being used for spoofing and phishing, along with a patch for the problem. More...

Microsoft is still denying that its Xbox Live online service has been the victim of cyber attacks, despite a growing number of Xbox Live users discovering their accounts have been hacked. More...

Microsoft, along with other companies like Google, Yahoo, AOL, are working with a start up called Agari in order to find and stop phishing email messages from inboxes. More...

Microsoft is refunding the UK Xbox Live account victims that have been hit with phishing scams. The scams have caused some victims to see multiple purchases out of their credit card accounts. More...

Yet another cyber attack threat has caused even more game web sites to shut down. This time the attack's victim is part of Nintendo's European division. VG247.com reports that the company's Club Nintendo customer rewards... More...

Google has admitted that hundreds of users of its Gmail service have been the subject of a attack to collect users passwords. Google revealed the attack in a posting on its blog site. It stated... More...

A Sony service is the latest victim of another attack, although this one involves a Sony subsidiary that is a Japanese Internet service provider. Officials at So-net Entertainment Corporation reported a breach by an online... More...

As more well-known corporations and brands send out emails warning users that their email addresses may have been compromised as part of a security breach at Texas-based marketing firm Epsilon, many are wondering what the... More...

HTC users may have reason to be nervous about the safety of their personal information, after security firm MWR InfoSecurity revealed a HTC phone can be used as a remote bugging device. The alarming discovery was... More...

Yesterday, Neowin reported on a press release from Sophos security that shows a significant rise in network attacks on Facebook and Twitter. This press release suggested that developers of social networks must take initiative to... More...

HM Revenue and Customs officials have warned taxpayers to beware of phishing emails sent out to take advantage of the January 31st tax return deadline. Telling recipients they are due a tax refund, the email... More...

Key-logging malware could be behind the recent web mail attack that saw thousands of email addresses and their associated passwords leaked online, according to one security expert. Amichai Shulman, from security firm Imperva, believes that... More...

Phishing schemes have become increasingly more common these days and, as we have seen over the past couple of days, can come as a big shock to the general public who are not aware of... More...

A study carried out by brand specialist MarkMonitor has reported that abuse of the World's top brands, through practices such as cyber-squatting and phishing, is rising. The most common form of abuse is still cyber-squatting,... More...

Just yesterday Neowin reported on a suspected scam where you had to enter your username and password just so that you could get emails everytime you get an @reply to your tweets, it was later... More...

Recently, there were concerns that a Gmail exploit may allow attackers to forward e-mail. A proof of concept was posted online but Google has now denied there's any evidence of a Gmail vulnerability. Google security... More...

Microsoft is warning Windows Live Hotmail users of a recent phishing scam that asks for the person's username, password, date of birth, and country or territory. It's not clear why the software giant has taken... More...

Several Romanian-based phishing scams were brought to light on Monday as 38 people were charged with stealing names, Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information from unsuspecting Internet users. This global crime... More...

You've won £500,000 in a special lottery! Simply give us your bank details! Security experts are warning of a phishing scam claiming to be a lottery run by Liverpool Football Club. The emails... More...

The message uses a little Windows Genuine Advantage fear mongering to cajole end users to download a fake update that realy is a backdoor Trojan. The message warns: "Please update your P.C. in maximum 12... More...

Security vendor Intego claims to have found a new trojan attack that targets Apple's OS X operating system but competing security firms (McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro) have yet to find samples of the trojan.... More...

Security firm F-Secure is warning of a PayPal phishing scam in circulation that seeks to steal your personal information. A fake website, which is designed to look like PayPal, was registered three weeks ago to... More...

eBay, PayPal and Yahoo have begun collaborating to keep Yahoo Mail customers safe from phishing by using Yahoo's Domain Keys technology in the U.S. to block e-mail messages that claim to come from eBay or... More...

eBay spokeswoman Nichola Sharpe announced that the company's security experts have determined that it's highly likely that whoever posted confidential information about 1,200 eBay members in the company's Trust & Safety discussion forum this week... More...

Germany's Federal Crime Office has arrested a Russian-Ukrainian-German group of 10 suspects accused of running a Trojan horse phishing attack that has been targeting users' bank accounts. An 18-month police investigation culminated in arrests on... More...

Security Researcher Aditya K Sood is alleging that Yahoo was at risk from a pair of critical phishing and redirection vulnerabilities. According to Sood, the first vulnerability could have allowed certain specific URLs linked on... More...

Security researcher Nick Sullivan over at Symantec Corporation believes that privacy settings on social networking websites such as Facebook give people a false sense of security that could expose them to phishing attacks. "This... More...

Security experts are warning of a spam e-mails regarding a phishing attack targeting gamblers on the PartyPoker website, the world's largest online poker site. The e-mail warns of news about 'legislation' affecting online poker players,... More...

Microsoft released a non-security update for Internet Explorer 7 two weeks before the next patch day, and urged Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users to download and install the fix if they notice the... More...

Swedish bank Nordea, the target of one of the largest online heists, has lost between 7 to 8 million Swedish kronor (a little over $1.1 million USD) over the course of 15 months. Security officials... More...

A security flaw in Google's search appliances could expose Web sites that use the products to information-stealing phishing attacks, experts warned Monday. The Google Search Appliance and Google Mini are used by organizations including banks... More...

Nearly 40 per cent of phishing attacks last month originated from the US or South Korea, according to a report by anti-phishing site PhishTank. The October report found that of the 3,678 phishing sites... More...

Customers of the Fifth Third Bank in America were the most at risk from phishing attacks in August, according to figures from antivirus firm McAfee. The top two institutions targeted in August accounted for a... More...

Microsoft is using data-mining techniques from a third party in its Internet browsers to guard against "phishing" attacks, where dubious Web sites try to harvest personal information from unknowing victims. Digital Resolve, of Norcross, Georgia,... More...

A third-party audit of the new phishing filter built into the Internet Explorer 7 browser and the MSN Toolbar has given the technology a thumbs up on the sensitive issue of user privacy. Jefferson Wells... More...

Security firm Symantec have released a bi-annual report claiming two of the web's most illicit activities are on the increase. Phishing attacks, where scammers send fake emails in a... More...

Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter,... More...

In my opinion, the feature in IE7 Beta 1 that separates it from the rest of the web browsers is the all new phishing filter. 99 out of a 100 times, "you" know that... More...

An American who was part of a multi-million pound ID theft scam in the UK was jailed yesterday for six years. Douglas Havard, age 24, was sentenced on Monday at Leeds Crown Court after he... More...

Netscape on Thursday plans to release the final version of Netscape 8, a browser that includes features to protect Web surfers against online scams. Early test versions of the new browser--so-called... More...

America Online has begun a campaign to identify and block fraudulent Web sites that attempt to solicit personal information from visitors, it says. The crackdown against so-called "phishing" sites is being conducted in partnership with... More...

eBay is rolling out a private messaging service to customers to make it easier to distinguish official announcements from fraudulent 'phishing' emails. The service - dubbed My Messages - offers a read-only inbox for logged-in... More...

A fake security bulletin purporting to be from Red Hat resurfaced, warning Linux users of a "critical-critical" security hole. A security bulletin circulated on the Internet late Friday and warned Linux users... More...

Less than a week after president Bush signed into law a measure to combat cyber-identity theft, Internet con artists last week unleashed a new form of phishing bait: a double whammy of instant messages and... More...

Opera has updated its browser to prevent its software been manipulated by would-be fraudsters to display a fake address to surfers. A flaw in the "Shortcut Icon" feature of versions of Opera prior to version... More...