Security News

Nasty computer spyware isn't only used by hackers to steal your credit card details - suspicious spouses have adopted it as a way of monitoring and controlling their partners' every online move.

A gang of Swedish criminals was seconds away from completing a digital bank heist when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam.

PRESIDENT Bush has promised a frugal budget proposal next month, but one big-ticket item is stirring controversy: an estimated $US6 billion ($6.83 billion) to build a secretive system protecting US communication networks from attacks by terrorists, spies and hackers.

British civil servants have been banned from removing laptops containing sensitive information from their offices today, after a computer with the personal details of 600,000 people was stolen.

Police are investigating the theft of a laptop from a Royal Navy officer which had held the personal details of 600,000 people.

A British TV presenter has learned the hard way that identity theft is serious, and in the process, become the joke of the moment for privacy bloggers.

A computer systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for trying to sabotage his company's servers out of fear he was about to lose his job.

The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information.

A CURIOUS game of cat and mouse is being played out on the internet, as high-tech hunters close in on a group of cyber criminals known as the Russian Business Network (RBN).

Ant infestations, oil saturation, and failed parachute jumps are some of the unusual fates that have befallen innocent data-storage devices recently.