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A heartless phishing gang that stole and frittered a British woman's entire £1 million ($1.6 million) life savings on items including "gold and cheeseburgers" have been handed heavy sentences by a judge at London's Southwark Crown Court.

Security pro says attacks designed for further breaches, noting, 'They're not gathering this information and sending it home for no reason'

Back in 2007 Johnny Long came to a fork in the road. An accomplished IT security pro with 13 years working at one of the big names, he had a great career and family, but he didn't feel fulfilled. And he had no idea why not.

Mobile security vendor Lookout plans to start flagging as adware mobile apps that use aggressive ad networks if they don't obtain explicit consent from users before engaging in behavior that potentially invades privacy.

Kim Dotcom has ordered the removal from his Mega file-storage service design plans for a controversial one-bullet plastic gun.

While companies have become more comfortable with the security of third-party cloud service providers, data security--particularly at the end user level--as well as concerns over meeting compliance requirements, remain top-of-mind among cloud adopters. This is the conclusion of a cloud security survey commissioned by NetIQ.

The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard are teaming up to roll out 13 million multipurpose national identity smart cards.

BYOD guidelines are just being defined, but one warning must rise above the din: never, ever, try to gain unauthorized access to an employee's private social networking site.

Volumes remain steady as junkmeisters return to old spam scams

Astronauts on board the International Space Station are preparing for a possible spacewalk tomorrow to repair an ammonia leak.

Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.

Five men have been arrested by British police after allegedly going on an extravagant £500,000 ($775,000) spending spree using a compromised American Express Black card.

Some of the technology has to be deployed together for maximum security, making the process complicated, said one security expert

The mobile industry's efforts to convince lawmakers that self-regulation alone is the best way to address growing concerns over privacy-invading mobile applications appears to be running into some headwind.

Malware authors have become so good at seeding exploits en masse that their monitoring, customer service, marketing and Australian localisation strategies have come to resemble professional business operations, a senior Trend Micro security researcher has observed.

A Website analytics tool, originally implemented by Internet service provider iiNet to gauge customer reaction to changes to its online applications, has delivered an unexpected bonus by allowing the company’s technical staff to detect and monitor hacking attempts in real time.

The idea of computer viruses persists in the popular memory but actually died a decade ago as commercially driven exploits increasingly pushed companies onto the back foot, Trend Micro chief technology officer Raimund Genes argued during a review of the evolution of malware over the past two decades.

Growing demand for IT security skills may have some CSOs worried about finding enough staff, yet some security executives believe the problem isn’t only with the universities – but with ambitious IT graduates that expect senior positions without first doing the hard work to deepen their knowledge.

A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.

Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology team.