The London Stock exchange (LSE) website has been brought to its knees as a result of malware which has been loaded up on to the site. (more…)

New plans devised by the UK police force to provide governance over rogue web domains are to be released and debated in public, news agencies have revealed this week. (more…)

News reports this week are warning internet users about a new scam, whereby cold callers telephone people and offer to provide support online through fixing viruses. (more…)

Following last week’s news that a booby-trapped email was causing disruptions to hundreds of organisations across the globe, security experts are warning that the virus continues to cause disruption through rapid-fire spreading in both organisations and individual machines, worldwide. (more…)

According to a security firm, a number of people all over the globe are falling victim to a bogus e-mail which promises the recipients access to a free sex film. (more…)

According to a new study conducted by security experts Norton, over twenty-five percent of people lie when they input their name and other personal details online. (more…)

Over the past few months, Indian government officials have been in discussion with Research in Motion in order to establish the safety of its Blackberry device security. (more…)

A new survey by technology researchers suggests that the popular practice of employing graphics cards as supercomputer surrogates is risking security and needs to be addressed. (more…)

Samy Kamkar, a security expert who has been working on hunting out shortcomings in routers, has demonstrated how online attackers can find out someone’s personal address through the net. (more…)

It is not often in the world of technology that people are actively encouraged to hack their way to success. Although hacking is undeniably a real skill, it tends to be frowned upon by the virtual world. (more…)

A search engine in China is breaking new ground when it comes to internet legislation, by suing their domain host providers following a hacking attack. (more…)

In a new initiative to cut down child exploitation online, Facebook have announced that they will be implementing a form of ‘panic button’ on their social networking site. The new button has been designed to alert authorities should young children and teenagers who use the site feel under threat from sexual predators. (more…)

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the regulating body responsible for data protection and privacy within the UK, has released a new code of practice for online data collection. The move has been taken following a number of security breaches perpetrated by the public sector. (more…)

The popular game World of Warcraft has made the headlines this week, following a decision to bring a close to its anonymous forums. Blizzard, the organisation behind World of Warcraft, have announced that users who play the online game will, from now on, have to post their real identities on to the game when they play. (more…)