We'd rather be fending off global cyberwar, sniff Feds A small town US mayor and his son have been arrested over allegations they hacked into a website calling for his recall.…
Sticking it to The Man, man, but for lulz too A new activist group is drumming up recruits for a cyberwar campaign against corporate giants due to launch on Friday, 25 May.…
50,000 punters sound off on privacy policy rewrite Facebook may be forced to make changes to its data use policy after campaigners helped drive enough complaints about the company's own proposed amendments to trigger a user vote on the matter.…
Fake email mimics Australian Taxation Office formats Queensland Police are warning residents of the Sunshine State about a new phishing scam that sees emails arrive in Australian Taxation Office (ATO) livery, complete with promise of a refund.…
Two plane-loads of crooks flown to China, amid suspicions of high-level Police corruption Police across South East Asia have swooped on an international telephone fraud gang, arresting over 480 people in eight countries after an investigation lasting six months.…
Single soldiers site swallowed surprise load A dating website for US soldiers was hacked and its database leaked after it blindly trusted user-submitted files, according to an analysis by security firm Imperva. The report highlights the danger of handling documents uploaded to web apps.…
Making money-grabbing malware is too easy on Android, say experts A firm that disguised Android malware as Angry Birds games has been fined £50,000 ($78,300) by UK premium-rate service regulator PhonepayPlus.…
ISP blocked for a week after 'ignoring' complaints Analysis Pipex subscribers struggled to send emails for several days after antivirus biz Trend Micro declared the ISP's network a source of spam.…
But RSA claims it would only work on rootkit-compromised gear Analysis RSA Security has downplayed the significance of an attack that offers a potential way to clone its SecurID software tokens.…