An Australian has released a virus for the Apple iPhone, ikee, which replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of Rick Astley.
Security vendors Sophos and Kaspersky Lab this week said they would block UK police attempts to hack into people's computer systems without a warrant.
The computer network used by the World Bank Group has suffered a series of at least six intrusions since mid-2007, according to a report.
Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US.
This week, the world marks an anniversary that has changed the face and other anatomical regions of e-mail inboxes everywhere: the first known spam e-mail was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.
According to one security vendor, Mac users are at a crossroad this year: will or won't they prove to be as gullible as their PC cousins when it comes to security?
Employees feel pressured to be available to bosses at all hours of the day, a study suggests.
Could quarantining e-mails be a better way of dealing with viruses than the traditional approach used by most antivirus companies?
New variants of the Mytob worm are using a phishing-style e-mail to fool people into downloading malicious code.
Teenager sentenced to 18 months for writing a MSBlast worm got his just deserts, according to a Web poll. What's your take?
A year on, and the company's US$1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?
Anti-virus experts are warning of a troublesome, Christmas-themed e-mail worm and a virus that spreads via MSN Messenger, the popular instant-messaging application.
Computer users continue to be duped by false virus alerts persuading them to delete harmless--but sometimes vital--files, and then forward the hoaxes to their friends.
Companies using Microsoft Office XP and Internet Explorer 5 have been warned that documents containing personal information could be sent to Microsoft along with debugging information in the event of a program crash.
Could this be a new wave of annoying hoaxes? A new email hoax has appeared, preying on fears over mobile phone security, one anti-virus vendor has warned.
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