Spam e-mails with racist messages flooded computers in Germany on Thursday.
A law that the government said would clamp down on those who send millions of unsolicited junk e-mails is instead causing more hassle for anti-spam campaigners.
Security experts warned Friday of a potentially harmful new e-mail worm that is slowly spreading among corporate and home e-mail users.
With the Klez.h variant topping most-widespread worm lists both in Australia and worldwide, concern is mounting over the impact on businesses.
The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project has started issuing updates to its Linux distribution again, after a hiatus of several weeks caused by a hacker break-in.
The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed.
eBay is decrying the lack of interest in cybercrime by authorities in countries such as Romania, Russia, and China.
On Monday, Adobe patched vulnerabilities in versions 8.1 and earlier of its Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. If exploited, an attacker could launch malicious code on an affected system.
Salesforce.com has revealed few details about a security breach caused by a phishing attack against an employee that surrended internal customer database details.
The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet unknown, could be preparing to sell off the "services" of segments of the network, according to Joe Stewart, a researcher from managed security services company SecureWorks.
With Bluetooth now a common feature on nearly all new mobile devices, there needs to be greater awareness from users about security problems and vulnerabilities associated with the function, according to industry figures.
The Storm worm is now more streamline and stable after malware authors ditched some key functions from the malicious code, according to researchers from Symantec.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the Web, has described online security as a "never-ending battle".
Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen, has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users.
Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence.
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