A travel industry group has called on the US government to halt its use of new machinery that remotely reads government issued identification cards at border crossings until the safety of the new system can be better understood.…

Pentagon systems and computers in warzones in Iraq and Afghanistan reportedly came under a malware-based attack last month. The infection promoted a recent ban of the use of USB stick and other forms of removable storage by the US military and also talk of cyberwar, which fails to stack up under close examination.…

Phishing fraudsters are attempting to scam the credulous into handing over their credit card details on the basis of a supposed offer from McDonalds.…

Computer systems at three London hospitals are almost back to normal two weeks after a computer virus forced staff to shut down its network.…

Researchers have unearthed rootkit-like functionality in an enterprise security product.…

WordPress has fixed a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its blogging software.…

Russian police have reportedly arrested a hacker who developed a tool for siphoning cash from WebMoney accounts.…

Fraudsters have upped the ante in their fight to discredit a respected UK-based anti-fraud website.…

More than a month after Microsoft issued an emergency patch for a Windows vulnerability that allows for self-replicating exploits, researchers have spotted a wave of new attacks in the wild that target the critical flaw.…

After being stranded for weeks, a monster botnet responsible for an estimated 40 percent of the world's spam was able to briefly reconnect to its mothership in a tense international duel playing out online that could have a dramatic effect on the amount of junkmail flowing into inboxes everywhere.…

Happy Thanksgiving holiday, United States. Here's your first helping of holiday terrorist panic.…

A Florida doctor has been jailed for 33 years and nine months over child porn offences.…

Microsoft is the world’s fifth worst spam service ISP, according to a new list compiled by Spamhaus.org.…

Security notification firm Secunia released the final version of its software inspector tool on Tuesday, 17 months after the first beta of a product that aims to help surfers to keep up to date with security patches.…

Facebook has taken the unusual step of sending its users email asking them to click on a link so they can restore site configuration settings that were recently lost. Facebook isn't kidding, and neither are we.…

Google security pros have taken exception to recent reports of a Gmail vulnerability that led to a rash of domain hijackings. They were the result of a plain-vanilla phishing campaign, they say.…

It may have taken six years, but a bug that allowed people to get satellite radio broadcasts for free has finally been squashed by Sirius XM Radio.…

A system-crashing bug with potential malware implications has been uncovered in Vista. But a fix for the vulnerability, which revolves around flaws in the operating system's network stack, may have to wait until the next service pack.…

Facebook has won a $873m judgment against a Canadian sued for spamming users of the social networking site with "sexually explicit" messages after hacking into the profiles of its members.…

Fraudsters with their finger on the financial pulse have launched a scam designed to exploit interest in UK government tax breaks.…