Windows XP less infected than newer versions during the last three months, but that doesn't mean it's any more secure
A fairly lightweight Patch Tuesday arrives in May, but there are critical fixes for Internet Explorer
Bitly employee credentials stolen from a source code repository - and then used to hit the site's backup
Android ransomware scam shames porn users into accepting extortion demands by pretending to have encrypted their phones
New research reveals that 32 percent of firms have suffered DDoS attacks costing £240,000 a day
Telecoms giant warns customers about potential for dangerous phishing attacks
If even anti-virus detractors like FireEye use the technology, it must be very much alive. Tom Brewster takes its temperature
NSA coordinated meetings with Google and other tech titans on mobile security
Dropbox and Box users are leaking private data through Google Analytics and Adwords, a competitor has revealed
Retail giant announces Gregg Steinhafel is stepping down as CEO to lead the company forward after its epic hack
Several major IT companies are reportedly moving to automatically notify users of government data requests
OpenID and OAuth vulnerabilities could allow for abuse of website redirection to get at user data
Irish ISP urges users to change their passwords but says there is no evidence of data breach following shut down
Systems across the UK could be abused by hackers to cause delays or even accidents, claims researcher
France is seeing massive amounts of DDoS traffic going through its networks, thanks to sizeable hits on the country's popular…
Organisations care way too much about money and not enough about ethics when it comes to people's security, says Tom…
Former Mt. Gox customers have agreed to settle two class-action lawsuits in exchange for a stake in a revived exchange…
In the wake of the discovery of Heartbleed bug, Mozilla is stepping up its certificate validation efforts
Google has removed five smartphone wallpaper applications that used handset computing power to produce digital currency
Microsoft tries to fight US government attempts to get data held on foreign soil, but fails
The Houston-based security services firm is to hire more than 100 staff and establish a security monitoring centre and data…
'Operation Clandestine Fox' attacks take advantage of a fresh Internet Explorer vulnerability
Companies including Amazon, Cisco and Google are contributing to an initiative that will target underfunded open source projects such as…
Violent crime is going down as fraud continues to rise, with digital crime likely to blame
City of London Police say scammers pretending to be Neil Trotter, winner of £107.9m on the Euromillions
Cisco's Managed Threat Defence service will remotely monitor enterprise networks and identify threats based on Hadoop 2.0-based predictive analytics
The Chinese government is investigating security tools for its Windows XP systems, while it negotiates with Microsoft over upgrade pricing
Updates have reduced the number of vulnerable apps, but millions still running flawed software on Android
Dual_EC_DRBG removed from recommended list following reports of NSA-funded backdoors
The Heartbleed OpenSSL flaw is fixed on websites - but security firms have spotted attacks on SSL VPNs, warns Sean…