Two men have been fined a total of more than £70,000 for illegally selling lucrative customer data to third parties
Spam operations are run like legal business enterprises and rely on banks’ merchant services to function
Spanish authorities claim capture of three members of the Anonymous denial-of-service hacker group
Ofcom's ex-IT services chief has been jailed for defrauding the organisation out of more than £500,000
Adobe's quarterly update will see fixes for security flaws in all versions of Reader and Acrobat
O2 customers are once again experiencing network difficulties, this time in East London and Essex
The hacker group Lulzsec has fired a warning shot across the bows of the NHS over its network security
Surrey County Council has been fined £120,000 for sending sensitive data to taxi firms, among other breaches
Microsoft will release 16 bulletins next week for 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Excel, IE and SQL Server
Citigroup has confirmed it has been hit by hackers who have exposed the details of thousands of customers
Microsoft denies careless talk that suggested the Russian secret service might get access to Skype encryption
Defence secretary reveals that serious cyber-attacks against government systems are increasing rapidly
The Duchess of Cambridge reportedly had her phone and bank account hacked by detective Jonathan Rees
Oracle has closed 17 remote execution vulnerabilities in Java, most are in the runtime browser plug-ins
The UK government is preparing to block sites that promote terrorism and extremism
An estimated 25 percent of US hackers are coerced into becoming FBI puppets, says the publisher of 2600 magazine
Cyber-criminals are attacking virtualised data centre systems and targeting cloud environments
Facebook admits it should have been more clear about the roll out of Tag Suggestions using facial recognition
The LinkedIn social networking site is being used to find victims to target with malicious phishing emails
Security vendor RSA will replace SecurID tokens for customers due to the rising atmosphere of cyber-threat
Google has been slated by China's Communist newspaper, which accused it of stirring 'political unrest'
Facebook's tagging suggestions feature uses facial recognition technology, prompting privacy concerns
Skype has crashed once again, leading to fresh questions over its reliability as a communication tool
Like sea anglers, professional phishers hope to make their fortunes by patiently using sprats to catch something bigger, says Eric…
Amazon Web Services is being used to spread malicious software, according to a Kaspersky researcher
Adobe has issued an emergency patch to a Flash flaw said to be behind the recent Gmail hack
About two-thirds of Syria's Internet access was cut off on Friday, amidst some of the biggest protests to date
Following its recent hacks of Sony and others, Lulzsec has carried out a 'friendly' hack on a Nintendo server
Good products can't stay proprietary for long, says Efim Bushmanov, the Russian who published an open source version of Skype's…
