The Mac may enjoy a largely secure existence compared to Windows PCs, but it's not immune. A new malware attack for MacOS X systems has been spotted in the wild.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last week, you've witnessed the wholesale hysteria being launched over the recent Swine Flu outbreak..

Web giant Google has admitted it thought the sudden spike in searches for Michael Jackson on Thursday was a massive, coordinated internet attack, leading it to post an error page on Google News.

A new SQL injection attack has already snared over 50,000 legitimate web sites, and threatens to cause havoc for innocent internet users, according to new research from ScanSafe.

The massive network of pages compromised by the Gumblar botnet are now being used to spread malware, according to researchers.

Thousands of Gmail and Yahoo email addresses and passwords are also leaked on the internet, leading to fears of an industry wide phishing attack

The web site of open source organisation the Apache Software Foundation, was taken down yesterday after hackers compromised the SSH key for one of its servers.

A major DDoS attack against US and South Korean government websites is not thought to be the work of North Korean interests, says a security expert

Holland's largest Usenet group, FTD, are suing anti-piracy outfit BREIN. File sharing is perfectly legal in the Netherlands and Bittorrent sites such as Mininova are fighting to stay alive by going on the attack

Spotted on Drudge Report and Lyrics.com.

A hacker known as orinOco has boasted that he hacked Steve Job's Amazon account, emailed pics of the hack attack and intends to sell the grimy account details

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.

A new virus attack is targeting the Delphi code compiler and garnering the attention of security experts..

An American based blogger and activist has decided that the best way to protest against Google's recent privacy changes is to attack them where it hurts - by creating a script that automates multiple ad clicks without clicking.

Barack Obama, Fox News and Britney Spears among the victims. Is anyone surprised?

The use of LimeWire as a tool for identity theft has been highlighted by a court case in Seattle.

There is a risk of banking websites falling prey to a new form of malicious keyboard logger, but there is a way to reduce your risk

Essential criteria: Must think like the enemy, know the enemy and report to the American Government. Previous hacking experience considered.

iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile smartphones could be vulnerable to attack warn security experts at a US held BlackHat conference..