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

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.

As neural controllers grow in popularity, so will hackers attempts to create malicious code to potentially corrupt, control and infiltrate our brains. So, what are the experts doing about it?

Covering your PIN code with your hand is no defence against new malware targeting ATMs that has appeared in the Ukraine and Russia, recording card transactions at the machine, including PIN, security number and account details

ATM security is so poor worldwide, that many more machines are likely to be easily compromised in the future, warns Kaspersky

Finally, it’s here – the James Bond of hard drives. The Seagate BlackArmour drive is protected by a brute strength AES security algorithm based on the highest Rijndael cipher keys available (256bit) that 'apparantly' can’t be cracked, ever.

Has a war between humans and machines already begun? A Swedish factory worker tried to fight back against a robot bearing large mechanical arms, when it attacked him unexpectantly.

Swine flu, the virus that threatens to be the next big global pandemic is now making its way into the video game world as The Swine Flu: Hamdemic.

The internet's most famous meme has now turned up on Australian iPhones, infecting vulnerable jailbroken phones with the 80s pop star's image - proving that not all malware is humourless.

Crowd photos appearing in an offical Iranian newspaper appear to show uncanny signs of photoshopping

A number of software products now offer remote thief detection for your mobile phone via Google maps, effectively baiting and catching would-be crooks. We take a look at the burgeoning new phenomena that is mobile vigilantism.

Security and privacy advocates argue that RFID tags could make it easier for hackers to target our private information, as RFIDs permeate every facet of everyday life

Screensavers rated at 59% on top of the list of the web's most dangerous search terms, based on a McAfee survey of 413,368 unique urls that can infect your computer with malware, viruses and other nasties.

Recently we reported how Apple banned certain 'sexy' terms from their app descriptions. Now, in an extra twist, a shoe throwing game inspired by the infamous George Bush incident is also being canned.

Open source malware now accounts for as much as 10% of the overall malware marketplace as criminals cotton onto the many benefits of adaptable code.

PC Authority's Daniel Long interviews Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Lab against a medieval fort in the old town of Dubrovnik, Croatia, at the 10th annual Virus Analyst summit

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.

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

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