Drug dealers that sell prescription steroids, opioids and other “Schedule 8” controlled drugs, are exploiting the lack of consistency in legitimate Australian prescription documents, according to a Queensland Health investigator.

Email attacks which contain malicious attachments consistently fell on weekends, according to an analysis of the first quarter of 2012 by US security and malware analytics vendor, FireEye.

One of the operators behind the mega spamming Bredolab botnet, which Dutch authorities took down in 2010, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment in Armenia.

Half a million people may receive a warning from Google today that their computer or router is showing signs of infection by the infamous DNSChanger malware.

The US Department of Defense’s latest assessment of China leaves little to the imagination about which country’s it thinks is the greatest cyber threat to US private sector and defence industry organisations.

For today’s Mexican cartel Facebook and an IP address is as invaluable as machine guns and armour-piercing bullets, says Brad Barker, president and founder of US intelligence contractor, HALO corporation.

A 21 year-old British man, Gareth Crosskey, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months in prison for hacking one US citizen’s Facebook account over six months in 2011.

The US Government, like most others, is openly building up offensive ‘cyber’ capabilities, but the arms race is on before the world has even seen a real cyber attack, says Robert Clark, operational attorney for the U.S. Army Cyber Command.

Yesterday CSO Australia reported that a new variant of a virus called Win32.Rmnet.16 was taking an abnormally high number of Australian victims.

Dr Web, the Russian antivirus firm that raised alarm over Flashback’s Mac malware outbreak, claims over 10,000 Australian Windows users have been infected by a single botnet using a new variant of the old Ramnit virus.

Adobe is partially reversing a decision not to patch flaws in Illustrator and Photoshop 5 and earlier following outcry from customers.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) has distanced itself from a distributed denial of attack against British ISP Virgin Media which was amongst several forced to block the torrent link magnet site.

Symantec issued an emergency update on Wednesday for Symantec Endpoint Protection after admins across the globe reported inbound Microsoft Excel email attachments were being detected as “Bloodhound.Exploit.459”.

Microsoft Sweden has launched a part-education, part-unashamed marketing campaign aimed at convincing spammers to retrain as direct marketers since, it says, spam is dying.

Intel has lifted the lid on its plans to deliver a “hardware enhanced” McAfee to tackle security from the data centre to desktops and mobile devices.