Australians would prefer to use voice biometrics rather than PIN and password verification to prove their identity but security experts warn biometrics exposes consumers to even greater risk.
Check Point claims its ForceField security product, which is due for release later this month, will not only protect against drive-by download attacks, it also allows users to discretely view porn or "buy gifts" without getting caught.
Two security flaws have been found in the recently released Windows version of Apple's Safari browser despite Apple's attempts to increase the user-base for Safari, its small size will help protect users, say security experts.
Security vendor Trend Micro's UK and Japanese Web sites were hacked last week; attackers managed to inject malicious iFrames into their "virus encyclopaedia" pages.
Swiss researchers say they can log keystrokes from Microsoft's wireless keyboards from up to 50 metres away using special radio equipment, and are close to being able to control affected computers remotely.
In the last 10 years, I've lived in three countries, and changed address over 10 times. Furthermore, the last time I had a pet was some 15 years ago and, heartless cow that I am, I can't remember its name. I do remember it was a brown hamster with enormous testicles, but that really doesn't help me right now.
Salesforce.com has revealed few details about a security breach caused by a phishing attack against an employee that surrended internal customer database details.
Complexity in rootkits is growing at a phenomenal rate, allowing malicious software to burrow deep and potentially go undetected inside Microsoft's Windows platform, according to a security report released on Wednesday by McAfee.
A low-tech approach to phishing has caught a New South Wales-based organisation after its employees were mailed CD-ROMs containing hidden keylogging software.
The launch of Microsoft Office 2007 is likely to force malicious hackers to focus more attention on looking for vulnerabilities in other desktop applications, such as Abobe's Acrobat Reader, experts told delegates at the RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Phishing attacks have outnumbered e-mails infected with viruses and Trojan horse programs for the first time, according to security experts.
Swedish bank Nordea has told ZDNet UK that it has been stung for between seven and eight million Swedish krona (around AU$1,500,000) in what security company McAfee is describing as the "biggest ever" online bank heist.
Following a number of attacks against OS X in 2006, Mac users are finally getting the message that they are not immune, according to an IT security manager responsible for over 5,000 Apple systems.
Research group Gartner has said that Mac OS X users are now safer from a mass attack -- such as Blaster on Windows -- than they were two years ago, partly because Microsoft has closed so many holes in its ubiquitous platform.
The Victorian Department of Justice (DoJ) is understood to have deployed a secure, "locked-down" Linux environment across more than 100 desktops in a state corrctional facility.
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